A study by AI researchers at Princeton and the University of Chicago suggests that LLMs are a long way from being able to solve common software engineering problems.
The rise of generative AI tools has already changed the way software developers tackle common day-to-day programming tasks, prompting concerns that the machines will soon either take away these jobs, or reshape them beyond recognition.
This perceived threat from generative AI is already changing how computer science is taught, and nearly half of developers “showed evidence of AI skill threat” – meaning they worried about AI threatening their jobs – in an October 2023 survey by Pluralsight.