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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone been able to read the Atlantic article "So Much for ‘Learn to Code’
In the age of AI, computer science is no longer the safe major"? I'm interested in hearing some thoughts as I look for a place to read it without subscription.[/quote]

Articles like this are written by people who have never tried to get ChatGPT to write anything worthwhile. It's all hype. It rarely gets even the simplest things right. It's more of a Grammarly for programming and could never replace a person at least not anytime soon.[/quote]

I use OpenAI tools, and others (CoPilot, etc.) daily.

These tools won't replace skilled developers anytime soon, but they *do* get the "simplest things right".  They can write short scripts in a variety of languages, complete functions, configuration files, and other short tasks.  If I don't know how something works, I can get a working example in ChatGPT in seconds, thus improving my productivity.

More productive programmers won't reduce jobs - it will increase them.  After all, if a given vocation suddenly becomes 2 to 3x more productive, why would industry reduce resources invested?

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Yes, it's very helpful for writing comments like increment i by 1 or coming up with clear variable names provided it's used to review code.[/quote]

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