TY - JOUR
T1 - On the persistent rumors of the programmer’s imminent demise
AU - Mohammadi, Hessam
AU - Ghardallou, Wided
AU - Brick, Elijah
AU - Mili, Ali
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - Since the dawn of programming, several developments in programming language design and programming methodology have been hailed as the end of the profession of programmer; they have all proven to be exaggerated rumors, to echo the words attributed to Mark Twain. In this short paper, we ponder the question of whether the emergence of large language models finally realizes these prophecies? Also, we discuss why even if this prophecy is finally realized, it does not change the job of the researcher in programming.
AB - Since the dawn of programming, several developments in programming language design and programming methodology have been hailed as the end of the profession of programmer; they have all proven to be exaggerated rumors, to echo the words attributed to Mark Twain. In this short paper, we ponder the question of whether the emergence of large language models finally realizes these prophecies? Also, we discuss why even if this prophecy is finally realized, it does not change the job of the researcher in programming.
KW - Automatic programming
KW - Large language models
KW - Programming languages
KW - Programming profession
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U2 - 10.1007/s10270-023-01136-y
DO - 10.1007/s10270-023-01136-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85176759430
SN - 1619-1366
VL - 22
SP - 1969
EP - 1976
JO - Software and Systems Modeling
JF - Software and Systems Modeling
IS - 6
ER -