{"id":14421,"date":"2024-05-12T07:37:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T05:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/12\/chatgpt-and-the-like-will-co-pilot-coders-to-new-heights-of-creativity-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2024-05-12T07:37:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T05:37:23","slug":"chatgpt-and-the-like-will-co-pilot-coders-to-new-heights-of-creativity-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/12\/chatgpt-and-the-like-will-co-pilot-coders-to-new-heights-of-creativity-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT and the like will co-pilot coders to new heights of creativity | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Far from making programmers an endangered species, AI will release them from the grunt work that stifles innovation<\/p>\n

When digital computers were invented, the first task was to instruct them to do what we wanted. The problem was that the machines didn\u2019t understand English \u2013 they only knew ones and zeros. You could program them with long sequences of these two digits and if you got the sequence right then the machines would do what you wanted. But life\u2019s too short for composing infinite strings of ones and zeros, so we began designing programming languages that allowed us to express our wishes in a human-readable form that could then be translated (by a piece of software called a \u201ccompiler\u201d) into terms that machines could understand and obey.<\/p>\n

Over the next 60 years or so, these programming languages \u2013 with names such as Fortran, Basic, Algol, COBOL, PL\/1, LISP, C, C++, Python \u2013 proliferated like rabbits, so that there are now many hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of them. At any rate, it takes quite a while to scroll down to the end of the Wikipedia page that lists them<\/a>. Some are very specialised, others more general, and over the years programmers created libraries of snippets of code (called subroutines<\/a>) for common tasks \u2013 searching and sorting, for example \u2013 that you could incorporate when writing a particular program.<\/p>\n

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\nFar from making programmers an endangered species, AI will release them from the grunt work that stifles innovation
\nWhen digital computers were invented, the first task was to instruct them to do what we wanted. The problem was that the machines didn\u2019t understand English \u2013 they only knew ones and zeros. You could program them with long sequences of these two digits and if you got the sequence right then the machines would do what you wanted. But life\u2019s too short for composing infinite strings of ones and zeros, so we began designing programming languages that allowed us to express our wishes in a human-readable form that could then be translated (by a piece of software called a \u201ccompiler\u201d) into terms that machines could understand and obey.
\nOver the next 60 years or so, these programming languages \u2013 with names such as Fortran, Basic, Algol, COBOL, PL\/1, LISP, C, C++, Python \u2013 proliferated like rabbits, so that there are now many hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of them. At any rate, it takes quite a while to scroll down to the end of the Wikipedia page that lists them. Some are very specialised, others more general, and over the years programmers created libraries of snippets of code (called subroutines) for common tasks \u2013 searching and sorting, for example \u2013 that you could incorporate when writing a particular program. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Far from making programmers an endangered species, AI will release them from the grunt work that stifles innovation When digital computers were invented, the first task was to instruct them to do what we wanted. The problem was that the machines didn\u2019t understand English \u2013 they only knew ones and zeros. You could program them …<\/p>\n

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