Day 74 of 100 Days of AI
I’ve been using large language modes to help me write code for the last 18 months. I’ve created apps, scraped data from websites, transcribed podcasts, amongst other things. A few years ago, this work would take me months of learning and effort. But LLMs have been a gamechanger.
There’s a possible future where people like me (and many others who aren’t professional software developers) won’t have to write any code at all when creating programs. In that world, to create a program you would simply tell a large language model the app or automation you want and AI would create a program you could use regularly. That’s the future that Dr Matt Welsh paints in this convincing CS50 talk at Harvard that I watched today.
Things might not play out exactly as he forecasts. However, in light of how good large language models are getting, and given my own experience of writing programs with AI, I can envision a world where significantly more people will be able to use computers in a way that was previously restricted only to people who know how to code.
The full talk is available below and it’s worth watching.