This is an opinion piece. I’d love to hear your counter arguments in the comments below.

At first glance, it looks like GPT-3 could be the end of humans writing code.

While groundbreaking, jumping to the conclusion that software engineers are obsolete is a little premature.

But those who write code for a living already know this.

Here are a few reasons developers are here to stay.

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Developers don’t get paid to write code

We get paid to solve problems.

Code is a means to solving problems, but it’s also grunt work and a necessary evil.

Code is not the solution, it’s the implementation of a solution

_- _David Williams

Writing code is the easy part of being a developer. Clarifying a problem and solving it given constraints on multiple levels is much harder.

This is the difference between writing code and writing software.

GPT-3 is too complex to scale

GPT-3 requires significant expertise and is too expensive for individuals and small businesses to run.

…models underlying the API are very large, taking a lot of expertise to develop and deploy and making them very expensive to run. This makes it hard for anyone except larger companies to benefit from the underlying technology.

_- _OpenAI

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