{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Oxide and Friends","title":"Does a GPT future need software engineers?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5958,"description":"Bryan and Adam and the Oxide Friends take on GPT and its implications for software engineering. Many aspiring programmers are concerned that the future of the profession is in jeopardy. Spoiler: the Oxide Friends see a bright future for human/GPT collaboration in software engineering.We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from March 20th, 2023.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on MM DD included Josh Clulow, Keith Adams, Ashley Williams, and others. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)Live chat from the show (lightly edited):ahl: John Carmack's tweetahl: ...and the discussionWizord: https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1636797265317867520 (the $1M bet on BTC, I take)dataphract: \"prompt engineering\" as in \"social engineering\" rather than \"civil engineering\"Grevian: I was surprised at how challenging getting good prompts could be, even if I wouldn't quite label it engineeringTronDD: https://www.aiweirdness.com/search-or-fabrication/MattCampbell: I tested ChatGPT in an area where I have domain expertise, and it got it very wrong.TronDD: Also interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPhJbKBuNnAWizord: the question is, when will it be in competition with people?Wizord: copilot also can review code and find bugs if you ask it in a right wayag_dubs: i suspect that a new job will be building tools that help make training sets better and i strongly suspect that will be a programming job. ai will need tools and data and content and there's just a whole bunch of jobs to build tools for AI instead of peopleWizord: re \"reading manual and writing DTrace scripts\" I think it's possible, if done with a large enough token window.Wizord: (there are already examples of GPT debugging code, although trivial ones)flaviusb: The chat here is really interesting to me, as it seems to miss the point of the thing. ChatGPT does not and can not ever 'actually work' - and...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/cVYTzMGAZ_7gNn2i7iJYSuWlQOM4wHdJAzEuWrnLo9A/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80OGI3/NjA5NWY4Yjc4NzE0/ZGI5ZmMzZmY4MjFi/YThiYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}