OpenAI estimates that Codex (what powers Github’s Copilot) can already complete 37% of coding tasks. DeepMind’s non-commercial AlphaCode is estimated to be 59% better at coding competitions than Codex. But how close are we to automation? There is a huge demand for developer jobs currently. In light of OpenAI’s DALLE-2 commercialization announcement yesterday, here is a new cross-disciplinary approach to determine how close we are to automation.
After reading the article how close, or far, do you think we are from software development jobs getting automated?
After reading the article how close, or far, do you think we are from software development jobs getting automated?