Programming
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Socher says AI verifiers will change all programming and the digital economy
“All of programming will change, and that will be a major impact on the entire digital economy, which is the knowledge economy, and so on.”
Chollet: AI Empowers Workers With Deep Expertise Rather Than Replacing Them
“The more, you know, the more expertise you have, but things like programming, for instance, the better you're able to Use and leverage these tools for your own benefit. And with the right kind of expertise all this AI progress is actually empowerment. Like, it…”
Sorkin: Humans Will Not Code Their Own Software In The Future
“I just don't see how we're gonna be sitting around doing our own programming. I just don't see it.”
Pereyra: Legal and Coding See AI Traction Because Both Workflows Are Unstructured
“Legal is so difficult is the workflows aren't structured. So the same way with programming, it's really hard until these models to build tools for programmers. You basically just had an ID and then programmers did stuff in all the different languages, but you …”
Truell: Programming Remains Foundational Education Like Math Despite AI
“I think that programming like math is kind of just a good general education. I don't think that that goes away, and I think that there's also lots of practical skills that comes from studying computer science right now.”
Boris Cherny: Programming will shift from text manipulation to working with agents
“I think one way it will definitely play out is it's going to change programming where programming is no longer direct text manipulation, but it's more working with agents to get the work done.”
Rizwan: Programming currently yields the highest economic ROI for LLMs
“In terms of economic value, programming is definitely the highest cost of benefit for language models right now.”
Truell: AI will eliminate the manual 'human compilation' step of programming
“And so I think that more and more of that, like, human compilation step will go away, and computers will be able to kind of fill in the gaps, fill in the details.”
Scott Wu: Programming will become more important as AI gets more powerful
“And so in that lens, I really think that programming is, if anything, is only going to become more and more important as AI gets more powerful.”
Truell: Background AI agents best fit easily specified tasks like bug fixes
“And I think the background stuff, there's like a segment of programming that it's especially useful for, which is type of programming tasks where it's very easy to specify exactly what you want with, you know, without much description, and exactly what correct…”
Socher: Learning programming teaches a mental framework, not just code writing
“Programming isn't just about programming itself and being like an IT or being a programmer or a developer or so on. It's also about a different way of thinking. And it's a different way of understanding the world that you're in. And so if you have an understan…”
Gurley: AI automation will struggle in programming due to high error costs
“If the cost Of a five percent error or a 10% error is super high, it's going to take AI a long time to get there. I would argue programming is that way. You can't have five or 10%.”
Carlini: AI helper functions preserve programmer mental state on complex problems
“One of the ways we currently don't think about being distracted is you're solving some hard problem and you realize you need a helper function that does X where X is like, it's a known algorithm... Instead of using my mental capacity and solving that problem, …”
Dines: 30 Minutes of Deep Programming Focus Completely Relieved His Anxiety
“If I went in front of a computer, and I could focus like 30 minutes, and start to work, after that my anxiety was gone completely, and I just got peace.”
Phind CEO: Future Programming Will Just Be Problem Solving, Delegating Implementation to AI
“In the future, you know, in the future, I think programming is just going to be really just the problem solving. Like you come up with an idea, you come up with like the basic design for the algorithm in your head, and you just tell the AI, hey, just like, jus…”
Rouif: Programming Got Easier Over Time, But Media Editing Didn't
“Programming got easier, but editing didn't”
Russo: Almost Every Job Requires a Technical Background
“To get started in in programming because, you know, that's really where technology is going, you know, with everything now I think you have to have a technical background for almost every job, at least some kind of technical background.”
Levine: Traditional imperative logic programming is reaching the end of its lifecycle
“I believe that programming is sort of in the life cycle of Programming is sort of at the end. Like, you can only write so many if-then-else statements. You're kind of done with logic, right, in that sense.”
Lasenby: Geometric algebra requires more underlying compute but simplifies code
“Underlying, you've got an algebra of A much bigger algebra than three-dimensional space where I've got three vectors. So actually, computationally, there's more going on. There's more going on. Yeah, but at a higher level, you know, I can get code to do all th…”
Paul English: Music arrangement requires coordination similar to software programming
“The coordination part of music arrangement, to me, feels similar to a lot of the coordination parts of programming, so I felt very comfortable in both areas.”
Ben Medlock predicted physical keyboards would dominate programming until AGI arrives
“I think for things like programming, it's really hard to see it changing significantly. And it's sort of almost It's very difficult to imagine what would actually do a much better job of this outside of a general AI that's better at programming than we are. So…”