Your team members may be tempted to rely on AI to help them write code for your company, either for cost or speed rationales or because they lack particular expertise. But you should be wary. — Pixabay
In the complex “will AI steal my job?” debate, software developers are among the workers most immediately at risk from powerful AI tools. It’s certainly looking like the tech sector wants to reduce the number of humans working those jobs. Bold statements from the likes of Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei support this since both of them say AI is already able to take over some code-writing roles. But a new blog post from a prominent coding expert strongly disputes their arguments, and supports some AI critics’ position that AI really can’t code.
Salvatore Sanfilippo, an Italian developer who created Redis (an online database which calls itself the “world’s fastest data platform” and is beloved by coders building real-time apps), published a blog post this week, provocatively titled “Human coders are still better than LLMs.” His title refers to large language model systems that power AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude.
