ChatGPT-O1 Changes Programming as a Profession. I really hated saying that.

AI's have not been able to do as well as professional programmers up until now. For a small subset of entry-level programmer jobs, that's no longer true (at least until the new hire becomes more experienced). It still doesn't have the judgement a programmer needs (or anything close to it), and it can't do the communication parts of the job (and is still awful at writing tests). But it's starting to live up to the capabilities of this form of Machine Learning. If your only programming experience is homework assignments, or If you're programming workflow primarily consists of copying and pasting from Stack Overflow, then I've got some bad news for you. 00:00 ChatGPT-O1 is different 02:00 What I've been testing 03:03 Coding RegExes is Rust 05:19 Incorrect Assumptions and Expectations 06:22 Rechecking ChatGPT-4o. Still bad 06:59 The specific case where it might replace a programmer job 07:11 But, it's a stupid job that shouldn't exist 08:03 Many C.S. programs don't prepare for useful skills 09:24 O1 Still has a lot of limitations 10:48 Just as bad at tests as Claude 3.5 11:16 Still bad at picking between alternatives 11:51 O1 couldn't even make this compile 13:40 "Human-like reasoning" claim is nonsense 14:22 Don't panic - tools obsolete skills every few years 15:23 But, things are going to be bumpy 15:35 Advantage to smaller, nimble companies for a while 16:01 Still going to be plenty of programmer jobs 17:35 But you need to learn how to use these tools, and well References: CodeCrafters (affiliate link) if you want to see how you measure up to 4o: https://iob.fyi/CodeCrafters That nightmare regular expression: https://emailregex.com/index.html My video with Proof News on the AI judgement problem, and Claude 3.5's poor test writing: https://youtu.be/x0y1JWKSUp0?si=Yxn1UxDWzko7Oeyt My video comparing 4 AI tools using CodeCrafters' HTTP in Python challenge: https://youtu.be/-ONQvxqLXqE?si=-Dz0zJiu3vHhe5R7 My video on Agile paving the way for AI to hurt programmers: https://youtu.be/9C1Rxa9DMfI?si=U9yTT6kHpnUDdRp2 My video on Software Testing in an AI world: https://youtu.be/02FD59whT5A?si=yJZukC5R7W95s5Fc