“Programming will be out of date,” Matt Welsh, a previous engineer at Google and Apple, predicted recently. Welsh now operates an A.I. start out-up, but his prediction, while possibly self-serving, does not audio implausible:
I imagine the traditional strategy of “writing a program” is headed for extinction, and indeed, for all but quite specialized programs, most application, as we know it, will be replaced by A.I. devices that are skilled fairly than programmed. In scenarios wherever just one requires a “simple” program … individuals programs will, by themselves, be produced by an A.I. fairly than coded by hand.
Welsh’s argument, which ran earlier this calendar year in the residence organ of the Affiliation for Computing Equipment, carried the headline “The Finish of Programming,” but there’s also a way in which A.I. could mark the starting of a new type of programming — just one that doesn’t require us to master
