I guess this is supposed to have a hopeful ending, but I found it somewhat depressing...

I've been thinking too much about generative AI these days I think. Among other things, this semester, I participated in a roundtable on creativity in the age of AI, and I guided one of my classes through an AI activity where they gave it prompts based on our class content and evaluated the results....

At this point, my conclusion is that humans are ahead ... for now, but not for long...

Disclaimer: I haven't read the complete article but...

To me, the interesting thing about coding is the logic, and the part about having to translate that logic into the byzantine syntax of the language du jour is the least interesting, and most frustrating, part of the job.

Yes, I routinely look up syntax on Google. I haven't tried asking chatGPT to write it for me, but only because I haven't thought about it yet. But if ChatGPT can correctly write code (or even a shell) for a multiply-nested do loop, I'm all in.

Nina (who has spent hours finding that elusive missing parenthesis in a string of code)

Writing out knitting patterns feels like coding to me. I like how logical it is. But I much prefer plugging symbols into a chart and letting my charting software spit out the written directions.

Will AI code future AI?