mizchi In a few years, the code written by AI will be the core of the business and the business has grown, but nobody can reading comprehension the core code. I’m sure there will be companies like that.

nishio In addition, AI is better at reading code than humans.

EzoeRyou Companies that keep running a black box of fast hands programmers who are moving from one venture company to another, building things that work without thinking about maintenance and operation, and then moving on. I’m sure there are plenty of them.

masanork It happens so often with humans that I feel we have no choice but to cry reverse engineering or rewrite, but I think it is likely to happen that code intended for completely different business purposes will get into the training data or prompts and do something bad. I think it is likely to happen that code with a completely different intention from the business purpose will do something bad by being mixed in with learning data or prompts. I’m especially concerned about content moderation.

stoshiya I sometimes hear that only the code written by retirees remains. Nowadays, AI can explain and even rewrite the code, so thank God for AI.

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