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What’s the point of the code isn’t human readable? You need to train the AI to write code that is easily modifiable with low dependencies. Otherwise the conversion isn’t very useful for anything unless your page is completely static

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Right but what if we didn't have to code anymore? Who would be reading it? Meaning, we don't worry about compiler readability anymore, we used to when assembly was fine tweaked etc. Just a thought. I work on full stack including front end animations etc but frankly its tiring and time consuming work to do that. Imagine if code was just you talking to it or showing it some whiteboards, then you would just talk to it again or show it other whiteboards. Code doesn't matter in that case.

Sorry replying to my own thread... I was just thinking, it all comes down to your will. Who will have the greatest will and orchestration of all these AIs combining them together. That will be the next thing, well its already happening.

It's unlikely we will leapfrog from human-written code to relying on black-box generated code in one step. Everyone's been pointing to AI being used to augment existing jobs, as opposed to outright replacement.

In order to augment a front-end developer well, we'll need human-readable code, unless we like reading uglified code/make an AI for that too.

We did with compilers, isn't this analogous?

I think you are spot on in the leapfrog. It will be augmented for a time but then it will be much tinier of a time its augmented to when its just full AI.

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