OpenAI o1 might be the final nail in coding's coffin — "If OpenAI's o1 can pass OpenAI's research engineer hiring interview for coding at a 90-100...

[Windows Central]

It's possible AI could reshape the coding landscape and claim jobs from developers — especially after OpenAI recently launched OpenAI o1 with advanced reasoning capabilities across science, math, and coding.

OpenAI o1 might be the final nail in coding's coffin — "If OpenAI's o1 can pass OpenAI's research engineer hiring interview for coding at a 90-100... : Read more

 

[fjtorres5591]

Too much hype and pearl clutching, not enough understanding of the limits of neural nets.
Maybe this will help:

In a nutshell, neural networks models, no matter how large, how complex, how well-trained, converge on a similar error rate that is far from non-zero. No clear answer yet but it appears to be due to the nature of language or the neural network approach or both.

They all level off at an errot rate well above the reliability required of mission critical software. So while AI processed code might theoretically be marketable for gaming there are entire industries were only human vetted code will be acceptable. That is where human coding will survive: some body will have to tell the model what to do and then verify it actually does what it is supposed to do.

As always, the truth about AI software remains that it won't be software that puts people out of work but other people making better use of software. AI is a tool learn to use it to your benefit or face the consequences. Causevthe djinn will not return to the bottle.

 

[CadErik]

Kevin's articles lack some depth and go for catchy titles. Not only the errors, but the AI will just spit out code it learned from existing open-source codes which is not always accurate or even good. I'm sure today's AI could replace some jobs, but this would not be any better than an average junior developer. I do not have a single doubt that the AI will pass interviews, or the turing test but these do not require to solve actual problems. Not saying this won't change in the upcoming years but wording in Kevin's articles is not accurate.

 

[fergdoug]

Magical thinking. You know, that feeling or intuition that, it's not yet perfect, but it will get better and better, just you wait and see.

Find 30 minutes to spare and read this: https://www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/

 

[FraJa]

Magical thinking. You know, that feeling or intuition that, it's not yet perfect, but it will get better and better, just you wait and see.

Find 30 minutes to spare and read this: https://www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/

https://www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/ ==> That's obscurantism, typical... but also tainted by a "We are the so special humans" etc. and a lot of ... bias and beliefs! yes, like always.

I'd suggest spending hours on this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/ai-frontiers/ It's Microsoft Research, the biggest scientific institution about computing and a wide range of topics. It's not R&D, nor Apple Marketing, scientists publishing etc. They have a lot of interesting things to say (and they might not talk about MS at all)....

And 1o has reasoning abilities that a minority of people have, in some places (where education exists and is organized, otherwise, that wouldn't be fair), a very very small part of the population ....