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Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> schrieb:

I just do not see it for software developers of anything complicated.
I’ve got 1.4 million lines of Fortran and C++ that I am dragging around
the place. I cannot imagine an AI figuring it out.

There was a recent study that using AI made developers who know
what they are doing slower, although they thought they were faster.
Also, my general observation (so far, at least) is that LLM-based
AIs are pretty useless for any work for which requires precision
(and, almost invariably, intuition) in engineering fields.
Maybe next year, maybe in five years, maybe never.

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In comp.lang.fortran Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:

“A sobering, short-term warning about artificial intelligence and white-collar jobs”

https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-sobering-short-term-warning-about.html

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I just do not see it for software developers of anything complicated.
I’ve got 1.4 million lines of Fortran and C++ that I am dragging
around the place. I cannot imagine an AI figuring it out.

I agree with this, & do not forget COBOL :) Github's
CEO came out with something similar as what Bayou said
yesterday I think. Remember, almost all CEOs moved up
through marketing or finance. They have do idea what
development is.

I think these CEOs are in a dreamworld about AI. I have
been programming for multiple decades and have seen many
iterations of that dream. All it did was create more jobs
for developers and raised their pay. I expect nothing
different from AI.

Lynn

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