I run an operation which provides an open source loan tracking tool. I had a play with ChatGPT 4.0 to see if it could recreate its functionality using a natural language interface rather than our current UX.
I fed ChatGPT a bunch of dummy savings and loans transactions and then asked it to compile loan tables for named borrowers.
It worked and I was impressed. For me, this felt like a move from programming to curation. I give the AI the data, and it organizes it for me and outputs it according to what I ask for.
I appreciate there is higher order programming, but for simple needs like the one I described, maybe this is not the beginning of the end for programming, but at least the end of the beginning.
I fed ChatGPT a bunch of dummy savings and loans transactions and then asked it to compile loan tables for named borrowers.
It worked and I was impressed. For me, this felt like a move from programming to curation. I give the AI the data, and it organizes it for me and outputs it according to what I ask for.
I appreciate there is higher order programming, but for simple needs like the one I described, maybe this is not the beginning of the end for programming, but at least the end of the beginning.