About whether GPT-4 writing working scripts means programmers won't write code in 10 years.
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About whether GPT-4 writing working scripts means programmers won't write code in 10 years.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
that's all stuff that would be impressive for a single human to be able to produce instantly (because nobody remembers all these APIs), but that's still formulaic enough that it's not hard to imagine why ChatGPT succeeds at it
but will ChatGPT help you debug and fix a production issue that came about due to a Kafka misconfiguration? will it be able to find the deadlock in your code that is causing requests to be dropped? will it suggest a path forward when you need to replace an obscure library that hasn't been updated in 5 years? will it be able to make sense of seemingly contradictory business requirements?