AI-enhanced SW Productivity Tools

The one persistent complaint about Chat-GPT AI: it's error-prone: it's correct 95% of the time and horribly wrong 5% of the time. That the 5% error rate will take decades to fix. This is a powerful argument if you are intending to use AI as a replacement for human beings.

But, what if you are using AI to augment human capability? Then, we look at the value generated as an "augment" to human skills

• Human Alone: SW Programmer =?1X Value
• Machine Alone: Chat-GPT =?0X Value
• Human + Machine Together: 2X — 10X Value. Tools like Chat-GPT and GitHub Co-pilot will continue to improve fast, and AI-expert humans will continue to become better at finding the kind of errors that AI tools make.

Compared to humans, AI has?two?superpowers:

• Large Datasets: can be trained on any data available electronically, could be the entire content of the internet. Modern networks make this dataset practically infinite.
• Super-fast Computations:?for pattern-matching and predictions, @silicon speed, several orders of magnitude faster than the human brain.

Humans come into the picture with our?superpowers: Providing context to the machine, correcting machine errors, handling the exceptions, reasoning, testing, deciding, and most importantly, inventing new things.

AI machines and humans have?complementary?skills and belong together. An expert programmer who understands how the AI-enhanced SW productivity “machine” works will now becomes invaluable. Likewise, the value of SW programmers who refuse to use these advanced AI tools will plummet dramatically.

Here's a list of: ChatGPT Generated SW Productivity Tools

Ultimately, the key is to find a?balance?between the use of AI and human expertise in order to achieve the best possible outcomes. By leveraging the complementary skills of both humans and machines, it is possible to achieve greater productivity and efficiency in the software development process.

This is indeed an evolve-or-die situation, so experiment, discover what works for you, and move fast. And that’s really what?matters.