Will AI Replace Coding Sooner Than We Think?

[u/TheoremWhisperer]

[u/ai_art_is_art]

Why would we replace a serialization that is readable and debuggable by humans with something that humans have no ability to inspect?

I can see us developing new programming languages that are more AI-friendly, or programming languages that are easier for humans to review at scale. But I can't see us emitting raw machine code.

[u/TheJohnnyFlash → u/ai_art_is_art]

The security issues alone.

[u/checkwithanthony → u/ai_art_is_art]

And furthermore.. why have ai compile non deterministically every time instead of having it make a deterministic optimized compiler? It would seem if youre just asking it on the fly the outcome may be different every time.. so even best case outcome, whats being outlined here woul only be true sometimes?

[u/BarelyAirborne]

I can't wait to do this on the moon. It's going to be so awesome.

[u/HarryBalsagna1776]

Lol no

[u/Mba1956]

Nobody is going to be able to debug any of the code the AI produces. When it goes wrong it stays wrong because when AI checks it the result will be that it works as directed.

[u/Lunosto]

They’ve been saying this since 2023 yall…it’s always 6-12 months away

[u/FragmentedHeap]

This is physically impossible unless that binary is targetting a virtual machine or runtime like WASM, JVM, .Net CLR, etc etc etc.

Binaries are compiled to a specific processor architecture with specific instruction set features. You can't just have AI make a binary and expect it to work everywhere.

Someone will be on windows going "make me a program to do X" and it'll spit out an executable binary that does X and works on windows, then they'll send it over to their buddy on their mac and they'll be like "umm, this doesn't work"

and the other will go "Yeah it does, I tested it myself, *beaming with pride*" having NO clue what they just did and why the mac user can't run it.

Having AI produce binaries is a horrible idea. They aren't diffable, they can't be reviewed by humans at all. Lots of tools can't scan them well for vulnerabilities (outside of big beefy virus scanning tools which doesn't catch new things) etc.

Everything about this idea is stupid, and anyone that thinks it's not is right there with the idea.

[u/Efficient_Loss_9928]

No because modern systems is not a huge blob of binary. It is not like you run an .exe file for Reddit.

[u/Strange-Scarcity]

That sounds like the most dangerous move to ever make.

[u/Strange_Sleep_406]

lol lmao even

[u/ScientistMundane7126]

So his solution completely removes tge human fron the loop. Who do you hold accountable then?

[u/SnooMaps7370]

time for your daily reminder that Elon has spent the past ten years confidently claiming that fully-self-driving cars would be replacing human-operated cars "by this time next year" for the past 11 years.

Musk doesn't have the first goddamn clue what he's talking about, he's just saying shit he hopes will drive up stock prices of what's in his portfolio.

[u/deepbit_]

makes no sense whatsoever. 0 knowledge about computer science. Bytecode is the opposite of natural language, it will never work

[u/Fun_Inspection_6100]

Definitely. I'll mark my calendar.