Shelly Fan writes…
DeepMind’s new coding AI just trounced roughly 50 percent of human coders in a highly competitive programming competition.
When challenged with the CodeContest—the battle rap torment of competitive programming—the AI solved about 30 percent of the problems, while beating half the human competition.
But don’t worry, coders are not about to become extinct…
It’s also unlikely the AI will take over programming completely, as its code is riddled with errors. But it could take over mundane tasks or offer out-of-the-box solutions that evade human programmers.
However, this should make you think twice about learning to code 🤔
ChatGPT is apparently nowhere near as powerful as DeepMind and yet it can already write handy code blocks for you based on simple prompts (example).
Personally, I think the smart move these days is to learn how to leverage powerful no-code tools rather than learning how to code.
What do you think?
