Robots vs. Programmers

Article: https://www.yegor256.com/2023/08/29/ai-for-software-engineering.html

Notes

Yegor predicts which new LLM-powered products are going to emerge:

• Code changes:

  • Report bugs.

  • Fix bugs.

  • Review pull requests.

  • Refactor.

• Team management:

  • Appraise performance.

  • Onboard new hires.

• Project management:

  • Formalize requirements.

  • Backlog prioritization.

  • Estimate.

  • Refine bug reports.

  • Analyze technical debt.

  • Suggest new features.

  • Predict.

• Documentation:

  • Document source code.

  • Document architecture.

  • Cleanup documentation.

Conclusion

Yegor could’ve used ChatGPT to help him format the article :-P

The product ideas make sense on the surface, some look too ambitious, though. I expect to see at least some of them in GitHub and GitLab by the end of 2024.