Other differentiated opinions wanted:
A friend showed me this and treats it like a prophecy. I’m rather skeptical. To me seems like somebody tries to fuel the AI hype with this text or is completely drunk with AI. It also fuels the China-US who-is-better-fight and the authors thoughts seem to circle too much around the US president, IMO.
But I don’t understand much of this machine-learning stuff. So maybe it’s me being ignorant. Still, to me reads like science fiction. How about you?
They already lost me, not even a minute in.
It’s still a graphing calculator. It still sucks at writing code. It still breaks things when it modifies its own code. It’s still terrible at writing unit tests, and any programmer who’d let it write substantial production and test code is like a lawyer who’d send the front desk attendant to argue in court.
It also has no idea about office politics, individual personalities, corporate pathology, or anything else a human programmer realistically has to know. Partly because it has anterograde amnesia.
So, since the authors screwed that up, my guess is the rest of the article is equally useless and maybe worse.