If You're Hyped About GPT-3 Writing Code, You Haven't Heard of NAS

GPT-3 made headlines in the machine learning community recently over viral videos showing human language-to-code translation. The model could be used to automate many redundant and repeated coding, for example in HTML/CSS or in the construction of a simple neural network. As many others have pointed out, GPT-3 is only a tool, and very limited by its training data. Much of the more sophisticated things developers want to do -- for instance, add some specific momentum-based animation to a site -- cannot be done by GPT-3 because it a) isn't advanced enough, b) doesn't have enough training data, and c) arguably isn't "creative". GPT-3 may become a helpful tool to help developers spend less time on retyping old commands and more time on brainstorming creative infrastructure designs and debugging complex, cross-system bugs, but it's in no way a threat to the livelihoods of programmers.