<2> Will AI Bring ‘the End of Computer Programming As We Know It’?
<3> The Changing Face of Computer Programming
<=""> Long-time tech journalist Clive Thompson interviewed over 70 software developers at Google, Amazon, Microsoft and start-ups for a new article on AI-assisted programming. The article, titled “Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It,” was published in the prestigious New York Times Magazine.
<3> The Rise of AI-Assisted Programming
<=""> In the article, Thompson cites long-time programming guru Kent Beck saying LLMs got him going again and he’s now finishing more projects than ever, calling AI’s unpredictability “addictive, in a slot-machine way.” Many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming, instead engaging in a conversation with their bots.
<3> The Impact of AI on Productivity
<=""> If you want to put a number on how much more productive A.I. is making the programmers at mature tech firms like Google, it’s 10 percent, Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, has said. This is the bump that Google has seen in “engineering velocity” — how much faster its more than 100,000 software developers are able