Dave Plummer

Or especially if it does work the first time.

I never trust that.

Yeah, I've done a ton of it for the Python side because I'm not great with Python and I'm kind of new to it, so...

I found it very helpful because I've learned a lot from watching the code that it generates.

If I don't know how to do something, because if I write Python from scratch, it's going to be about four times as long as what the AI can crank out because Python can be pretty terse if you're good at it.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's all pretty self-explanatory once you see it, but creating it from a whole cloth is a little different.

Oh, and to read it and to know what to tell it to do next and all that, yeah.

I don't think you can vibe code yourself if you're just new and haven't coded, but if you're a good programmer, AI can make you incredibly powerful.

I do.

I think, I don't want to say prompt engineer, but I think it's going to be something like that in the sense that if you're an architect building a bridge, at some point, guys were down there welding beams together, but now you're dragging things around in AutoCAD and assembling from big free form sections.

And I assume that's what programming will be like.

You won't be in there throwing individual lines of code around.

You'll be moving components and interfaces around.

and describing to the AI what those interactions should be and letting it build the components.

But I think we're still quite a ways from it being able to whole cloth generate.

You can't say, give me a Linux kernel that's compatible with Linux.

One day we'll be able to and it'll crank it out.

But we're not there yet.

Yeah, I kind of came up at a really fortunate time, I think, because I had to come up with the technology over the course of 30 or 40 years.