Simple Project AI Experiment
[AI]
These days (Jan 2025) one can hear or read a lot of news stories and announcements about Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models.
Something we see much less on this topic is concrete, solid, experiment reports.
In particular, it is frequently claimed that AI will soon replace or is already replacing programmers and testers in the workplace.
Such a claim can provoke all kinds of reactions among people whose job is to create, test, maintain and evolve programs.
It seems to beg the question, since we know that AI tools can’t think : is it necessary to think in order to perform a programming or a testing task ? If thinking is not required, then indeed, computers will probably eventually replace all programmers.
Note that while there is no doubt that AI is already helping a lot of programmers (as everyone can experience everyday with the current technology), the question asked here is rather : to what degree can we replace programmers in a given project with AI ?
The best way to answer this question is not to make more speculations or claims about a near future state of capacity for AI tools, but simply to experiment.
I created a simple project on which one can experiment and maybe assess the capacity for AI tools to replace a programmer. Here’s the link
Enjoy !