Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you must have heard about ChatGPT by now. The hot-take of the moment is that AI will replace Software Engine

ChatGPT won't replace software engineers

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2023-01-24 21:30:06

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you must have heard about ChatGPT by now. The hot-take of the moment is that AI will replace Software Engineers. But as with many hot-takes, it is wrong. AI will fundamentally change software companies, but not in the way most expect.

Let’s start by stating the obvious: ChatGPT is a leap forward compared to the already powerful GPT-3 model. The answers it provides to prompts are human-like and tackle the task as required.

For example, it can answer essay questions. Or generate prompts for AI-based image generation software. Focussing on a more technical domain, it can solve problems of advent of code. The list of prompts with great results is long.

People are testing the tool in varied domains: law, writing, poetry, coding, and many more. They are getting decent results in all. Given that, one could believe that it will start replacing some jobs.

When talking about our industry, the sight narrows inevitably to software engineers. The end of 2022 has seen many rounds of lay-offs, and a challenging environment.