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  • Re: =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CA?= sobering, short-term warning about artificia

    From Thomas Koenig@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Tue Aug 5 20:14:23 2025
    XPost: comp.lang.fortran

    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:

    I just do not see it for software developers of anything complicated.
    I’ve got 1.4 million lines of Fortran and C++ that I am dragging around
    the place. I cannot imagine an AI figuring it out.

    There was a recent study that using AI made developers who know
    what they are doing slower, although they thought they were faster.
    Also, my general observation (so far, at least) is that LLM-based
    AIs are pretty useless for any work for which requires precision
    (and, almost invariably, intuition) in engineering fields.
    Maybe next year, maybe in five years, maybe never.

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  • From John McCue@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Wed Aug 6 01:48:58 2025
    XPost: comp.lang.fortran

    Followups trimmed to: comp.lang.fortran

    In comp.lang.fortran Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
    “A sobering, short-term warning about artificial intelligence and white-collar jobs”

    https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-sobering-short-term-warning-about.html

    <snip>

    I just do not see it for software developers of anything complicated.
    I’ve got 1.4 million lines of Fortran and C++ that I am dragging
    around the place. I cannot imagine an AI figuring it out.

    I agree with this, & do not forget COBOL :) Github's
    CEO came out with something similar as what Bayou said
    yesterday I think. Remember, almost all CEOs moved up
    through marketing or finance. They have do idea what
    development is.

    I think these CEOs are in a dreamworld about AI. I have
    been programming for multiple decades and have seen many
    iterations of that dream. All it did was create more jobs
    for developers and raised their pay. I expect nothing
    different from AI.


    Lynn


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