Interview with Programmer Steve Yegge On the Future of AI Coding

I had the opportunity to interview esteemed programmer Steve Yegge for the SourceForge Podcast to ask him all about AI-powered coding assistants and the future of programming. 'We're moving from where you have to write the code to where the LLM will write the code and you're just having a conversation with it about the code,' said Yegge. 'That is much more accessible to people who are just getting into the industry.'

Steve has nearly 30 years of programming experience working at Geoworks, Amazon, Google, Grab and now SourceGraph, working to build out the Cody AI assistant platform. Here's his Wikipedia page. He's not shy about sharing his opinions or predictions for the industry, no matter how difficult it may be for some to hear. 'I'm going to make the claim that... line-oriented programming, which we've done for the last 40, 50 years,... is going away. It is dying just like assembly language did, and it will be completely dead within five years.'

You can watch the episode on YouTube and stream on all major podcast platforms. A transcription of the podcast is available here.

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