Transitioning to AI

 I am a programmer. I started somewhere around 1981. I've been programming ever since. The last several programs I've written have actually been written using Clause 3.5's AI engine. It's costing me 20.00 a month. It's well worth the cost. 

I've been transitioning from C++, the computer language to HTML, JavaScript and PHP. I can tell you this: Why on earth should I spend a week on a small program that updates a table in Sqlite database, when I can do the same thing in 2 hours. 

It's called prompt engineering. It's a way to guide the AI system into creating a program that works. For instance, my latest program is accessed through the Upgrade/Bug system. This webpage implements a table that can edit my Sqlite table in my database. I can delete, set priorities, show done or not, whether it's a bug or an upgrade. It places buttons above the table that allows me to add rows and more. It's powerful. 

It was completely written using AI. Yeah! There's no doubt about it, the world of programming has completely changed for me. Now I think in terms of small programs that can be called out from button or whatnot. The thing is, that blows my mind, when I develop the prompt for the webpage/program, Claude manipulates the logic of the program. It's not just regurgitating someone's code from some repository, it is literally organizing and thinking through how to make my instructions work. 

This is not just copy/paste, this is logic being manipulated. Yeah! AI can manipulate logic. Since it can do that, the end of the typical programmer is here. Can you realize the size of this change? I've done some pretty big projects in my time and I can say this: The day of junior programmers is done. 

It makes mistakes, it does and pretty regularly. For instance, in the table it created above, it left out the buttons at the top of the table, so I told it, Hey, you left those buttons out, then it added them back in and everything worked. WHAT!? again: WHAT!?

This is not some LLM manipulating text, this is sophisticated programming on the PHD level. And this is just the beginning. Most of companies today use programs. Every store terminal, every aircraft manufacturer, every robot, every microwave or tv or refrigerator or car or computer or automation device uses software. If that software can be created in a 30th of the time and be accurate without bugs, then, yes, the world has changed.

Pierre   


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