This makes me wonder if a future job description will be the equivalent of an AI whisperer. Someone who learns how to prompt AI so well that it becomes their job.
Future programmers will write prompts for a future version of Github Copilot: "database layer with all the usual CRUD operations, in readable modern C++, code compiles and passes tests, test cases carefully written by computer scientists with great attention to detail".
I’ve been playing with tech like this for over a year now. It definitely requires getting to know the AI to get good results. The tech gets better fast and makes old techniques obsolete. But, the gap between beginner and expert prompters stays large. As silly as that sounds to read back :D
To an extent. But I think it'll get baked into existing jobs. A bit like how "computer skills" or the ability to write good Google queries ended up as part of regular clerical work.
This is absolutely the future, but it's not going to be obscure. You won't have a job if it isn't this or physical.
AIs are going to replace entry level creatives, and experienced users with taste will largely perform selection and the development of good starts to mature designs. And I mean all creatives. Engineers, architects, mathematicians, programmers.
Mathematicians, doubtful. Someone must do some verification of the AI results.
Programmers, also doubtful. You still need to design some APIs and interact with them. Interacting with an AI using natural language might become possible, but it definitely won’t be as efficient as more structured languages. (E.g., writing an algorithm in actual code is often much easier than teaching it to a human.)
It's exactly that verification of results and development from snippets and starts into a complete whole that will be the purview of human work. The AI will be replacing (or, rather, preventing the creation of positions for) juniors.
