Yes, the age of all programming is over, because no new libraries or languages will ever be invented and LLMs will this always know everything there is to know about coding based on what's already been written which will never go obsolete.
Honestly, mocking these things is SO EASY.
What makes you think AI won't be writing libraries or languages in the future?
Assuming that's true, and that's a BIG assumption.... What makes you think that would matter? AI has no interiority; it isn't a thinking blob, it's a text generator. Think of it as a fancy Markov chain.
Even if it were true, where in the chain do new principles, new techniques, new concepts enter into it? All these forms of generative AI can do is regurgitate what's been fed into it. The worst thing you can train an AI from is AI-generated output.
Ever heard of skills? You can essentially "teach" it new things that are not directly available in its model, right now it's still pretty early but it (to me) feels like quite a leap compared to model-only usage.
Its by no means perfect, but I do not think we're even close to scratching the surface of what all can be done with the tech.
I would bet people back at the advent of computers would scoff at many of the things computers can do now as fantasy.
Edit: Right now, context size is a limiting factor, but you can do things like assign sub-agents to specific tasks/skills and have the overall agent call the subagent to complete the task thereby reducing the context size needed for the skill on the original agent call, it sorta acts as a mediator. Of course you still need to ensure you're documenting what does/doesn't work and have that available for future tasks in the same vein so it doesn't repeat mistakes.
On your point about the underlying model used to train it, I imagine at some point there will be a breakthrough where it becomes more dynamic, I think skills are kind of a stepping stone to that. Maybe instead of models being gigantic, data is broken down into individual skills that are called to inform specific actions, and those skills can easily be dynamic already.
"Ever heard of skills," wow thanks for beginning with a dismissive statement that implies all of this you're saying is not only true but obvious. This is not the way to respond to people with strong objections.
I apologize for responding partially dismissively to your obviously dismissive op.
I was also being serious though, most people who only mildy use AI don't know how to optimize it with things like skills, normies just chatgpt/claude/copilot directly in the literal "chat" not using additional tooling like skills/sub-agents/mcp servers.
I'll take all the AI they throw at me once the governments start taxing the rich appropriately, and these taxes cover for at least the basic needs of everyone. I'm not holding my breath, they always want everything.
I wish more people brought this up instead of just flinging shit at users/companies using AI.
They're fighting an unwinable battle, AI is here to stay and it will keep improving, we have to adapt and ensure people are able to have their basic needs met.
But that's scary socialism or w/e.
For all the focus on Scam Altman, we should probably be focusing on the companies that are so quick to abandon their workers on the promise of saving a few bucks.
And yet, if you walk into any discussion about LLM use in coding, devs come out in droves to defend and even champion its use...
Thanks for all the templates, we will open source software and you time for collecting funds is over.
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