I recently read an article working through the claim that AI is writing 90% of all programming code now. The article explained the claims and then talked about how programmers end spending too much time checking and fixing the code generated by whatever artificial intelligence was used. The conclusion was that the human coders are more creative and adaptive and do things "by hand" rather than rely on the machines.
I'm not sure if I believe all of that but the story reminded me of something.
During my career as an air traffic control specialist I did a lot of things to support the operation. I earned a degree in Computer Information Systems and used it to develop small applications to "automate" some tedious things. It was a lot of fun!
A job in headquarters for controllers with programming experience opened up in headquarters. They were assembling a team from the "front lines" to develop business knowledge applications that made sense to the field facilities. A co-worker that was not a programmer applied for the job.. His justification was that they were using Visual Basic to develop the programs and he had learned how to click options in the VB menu and then auto-generate an "application". He couldn't do anything with the code after it was generated but still wanted the job.
He was selected for the job. As he prepared to go to headquarters things changed in his life and he had to back out of the offer to work headquarters. They chose me to go in his place. And I got to help develop applications that we used in feeders l facilities nationwide.
I never used the auto-generate function in VB. Because it was too much work to wade through all the junk the program generated so I could adapt it to what we were trying to do.
So I tend to agree with the conclusions in the article..
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