The urge to be alienated from your own craft (he had a tehcnical background at some point) and then justify it because you “dont have time” to code anymore (gee whizz maybe pick a different job dipass) is infuriating.
He’s just typing in a request and the code changes before his eyes – he isnt doing any fucking coding!!! He’s using a chatbox to request an entity changes the code!!! we already do that dorkshit!!! and we hallucinate bullshit too!!!
Look I know that capitalists will always align to automation over workers, but this isn’t that. This is a man who is genuinely convinced he is an active participant in the programming process despite occupying a role no different to the one he does already, only with faster results in the specific demos he creates.
Capitalism has turned its central contradiction – alienation, into a fucking product that people want.
I think this is probably the way coding is going to go, assuming the economics of the whole thing works out. Which it might not. But I don’t think you can just type some bullshit in the chat box and expect it to be any good.
for not very complicated things the prompt is pseudo code and as people want to make it more reliably do more complicated things the complexity of the prompts required will escalate into something that more closely resembles a programming language.
and it’ll still fuck up like a buggy compiler that nobody can fix.