[Don Patrick]

I'm starting to reconsider whether I even want to apply for programming jobs if in a few years it means that all I'll be doing is debugging illogically construed AI code derived from the works of random amateurs on github.

[WriterOfMinds]

I don't expect it to find its way into my (aerospace and defense sector) job anytime soon. Generally speaking, my employer doesn't even want us to use open-source code, for security, reliability, and licensing reasons. LLM-generated code has all the same issues, but even worse. So there's been no talk of bringing ChatGPT into our development flow, and I don't think there will be.

[frankinstien]

Where I work we are looking at Github's Co-Pilot. It would make troubleshooting code much easier and getting started with a good example for something helps as well. It's like pair programming but you can draw on a plethora data and not be confined to just one language where the AI can do translations. Compare this to just googling for something where some of the stuff is decades old! Yeah you can set the filter for more recent stuff but sometimes that doesn't even return anything. And there is the instant feedback from the AI where is much easier to rephrase your problem and get to solutions you need. I mean if airline pilots use auto-pilot why wouldn't it be great for a programmer to have that kind of expertise at the tip of their fingers?

[DaltonG]

Long long ago in a simpler world came a notorious law initiated by Apple/Steve Jobs against Microsoft over the "Look and Feel of the graphical user interface." When Gates was accused of stealing Apples ideas, he replied, "no, we stole it from the same place you did - Park Xerox.

I've often wondered how it came about that Copyrights could be awarded to software. If you stop and think about it, the code is translated into machine code by a compiler - which relies on microcode from Intel embodied in the cpu. 3 levels of translation to become functional! It would seem that it would be more appropriate to award a patent.