AI writing
On the topic of AI writing code, I've read a Sci-Fi story some 30 years ago, probably from the 1950s or 1960s.
At the future Earth, fiction writers write using machines. The quality of writing is associated with the sophistication of writer's machine. Publishers reject stories written on a lower end machine. The hero of the story is a struggling writer, who has to make do with a cheap unit. As his machine writes poorly, he's paid little, so he cannot save up for an upgrade. He hatches a plan to sneak into the house of a successful writer, and use the better machine to write a break-out story. The oddly prescient punch-line is, he discovers that the successful writer's machine was non-functional. His better wrote his stories manually in secret.
I wonder if such scenario may even be possible, programming-wise, if you work in a company that does not micro-manage velocity, or work as a consultant, so that your sausage factory remains behind a curtain.
At the future Earth, fiction writers write using machines. The quality of writing is associated with the sophistication of writer's machine. Publishers reject stories written on a lower end machine. The hero of the story is a struggling writer, who has to make do with a cheap unit. As his machine writes poorly, he's paid little, so he cannot save up for an upgrade. He hatches a plan to sneak into the house of a successful writer, and use the better machine to write a break-out story. The oddly prescient punch-line is, he discovers that the successful writer's machine was non-functional. His better wrote his stories manually in secret.
I wonder if such scenario may even be possible, programming-wise, if you work in a company that does not micro-manage velocity, or work as a consultant, so that your sausage factory remains behind a curtain.