No... ChatGPT is not going to take away your programming job #248
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Apr 5, 2023
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| # The Reality of the Situation | ||
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| Follows is a "real world" example of a task that I asked ChatGPT to perform. I share this information with you now for several reasons. First and foremost, I wish to calm your nerves. No, ChatGPT will not replace your programming job. Secondly, I wish to explore how ChatGPT can actually make you better at your job. Lastly, I will talk about what the future holds for generative AI models and if their is really ever cause for concern regarding "the robots took my job!". |
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Weird start of the first sentence
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What follows mat be better
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| ## Dangerous Code | ||
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| After I had gotten this program to run in Docker (I didn't bother with the kubernetes bit), I decided to add another additional prompt. For brevity's sake, I will just share the fun part with out the giant text wall. I asked ChatGPT to give me the code to run my Multi-core CPU benchmark program with a GUI. It started spitting of a bunch of python tkinter code. As a thought experiment, I wanted to run the code as-is with no changes. Here is the code in full: DO NOT RUN THIS CODE!! |
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For dramatic effect put do not run this code in big letters on its own line
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| ## The Good Stuff | ||
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| Okay, now for a positive note. Throughout this whole process, which I thoroughly enjoyed, I actually learned something new about python that I didn't know before. That's rigth, ChatGPT taught me something. It came in the form of a python function that I had never seen before. If you look back at the first code that ChatGPT generated for me, there is this little function: |
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| # Conclusion | ||
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| I don't believe that generative large language models such as ChatGPT are poised to take our hard won programming jobs. There is still just to much surrounding knowledge, adjacent knowledge, that can't fit into a prompt, or that doesn't make sense for ChatGPT to have access to. For instance, an organizations entire source code does not need to be handed over to ChatGPT, but in some cases, that is what it would take to have the given context. So rest assured, we are safe! For now... Who knows what the future holds, in the meantime, I am going to make the most out of the situation and use ChatGPT as a learning tool, to discover new functions and paradigms I may have missed, or would not otherwise know about. |
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So rest assured, we are safe! For now...
Should probably be "So rest assured, we are safe... for now. Who knows what the future holds. In the meantime,"
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