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End of coding? Microsoft framework makes devs AI supervisors

The end of coding? Microsoft publishes a framework making developers merely supervise AI

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Lol. Humans are just moving up on the stack. I'm sure some people were upset about how we wouldn't need electrical engineers anymore once digital circuits were invented. AI is a tool, without a trained user a tool is almost useless.
I write automation code for devops stuff. I’ve tried to use ChatGPT several times for code, and it has never produced anything of even mild complexity that would work without modification. It loves to hallucinate functions, methods, and parameters that don’t exist.
It’s very good for helping point you in the right direction, especially for people just learning. But at the level it’s at now (and all the articles saying we’re already seeing diminishing returns with LLMs) it won’t be replacing any but the worst coders out there any time soon.
- Context-aware AI is where it's at. One that's
  integrated into your IDE and can see your entire codebase and offer suggestions with functions and variables that actually match the ones in your libraries. Github Copilot does this.
  Once the codebase gets large enough, a lot of the time you can just write out a comment and suddenly you'll have a completely functional code block pop up, and you hit "tab" to accept it and move on.