I don’t agree with the pervasive belief that AI will reduce toil. What’s stopping us from eliminating it with our current tools?
“We also heard from developers that they want AI to support simpler tasks and reduce toil, allowing the developer to focus more of their energy on the complex problem solving and creative aspects of their jobs.”
https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/so/2024/03/10493171/1VTvfCwygyk
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Similarly:
“The top hindrance is consistently technical debt, and the following two most common hindrances are interesting opportunities for AI: 1. poor or missing documentation and 2. learning a new platform, infrastructure, framework, or technology (see Figure 1).”
1. Require docs and hire technical writers; 2: Hire teachers
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“The top hindrance is consistently technical debt”
I suspect that AI, shifting developers from authors to proofreaders, will not reduce this hinderance.