Opinion | It’s the End of Computer Programming as We Know It. (And I Feel Fine.)
“Programming will be obsolete,” Matt Welsh, a former engineer at Google and Apple, predicted recently. Welsh now runs an AI start-up, but his prediction, while perhaps self-serving, doesn’t sound implausible:
I believe the conventional idea of “writing a program” is headed for extinction, and indeed, for all but very specialized applications, most software, as we know it, will be replaced by AI systems that are trained Rather than programmed. In situations where one needs a “simple” program … those programs will, themselves, be generated by an AI rather than coded by hand.
Welsh’s argument, which ran earlier this year in…
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