No Coders in 5 Years Says Emad Mostaque CEO of Stability A.I.

Silicon Valley is desperate for peak hype of their Generative A.I. experiments.

This human looks like a good actor, sure.

Hey Everyone,

"There will be no programmers in five years," believes Emad Mostaque, founder and CEO of Stability AI. In an interview, Mostaque talked about the dominant role that generative AI systems like ChatGPT are already playing in programming. Forty-one percent of the code on GitHub is already AI-generated, he said.

I hope you are having a good summer. I recently came across one of the more outrageous quotes I’ve seen in the era of Generative A.I. It’s a great LinkedIn threadbois sort of topic.

Mostaque was speaking at a show hosted by author Peter H Diamandis when he made the startling revelation.

The credibility of this founder was already on shaky legs. Stability A.I. has been struggling to get funding to keep up with its peers.

The famous “quote” occured about 10 days ago, you can listen to it here:

Peter Diamandis is also one of those Silicon Valley transhumanists who is always hyping up the future in the traditional VC-bro “let’s live forever” manner. It’s all very Singularity University.

But at what point does marketing and PR reach a toxic sort of misinformation point? While coders are embracing A.I. tools and things like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT and maybe even OpenAI’s Code Interpreter, why would there be no coders in five years?

If that’s true, incompetent and false-promising CEOs might also be replaced. Part of the job of a CEO is to be a salesperson, but should that including lying about our resume or making huge promises about the field? And do I care about having ChatGPT on my phone without the internet? WTF.

The problem with the Generative A.I. hype is its a shareholder stock boom sort of bubble. Some believe hyping up the field is for their own benefit, that there is ROI in pretending LLMs will magically change the world for the better.

Peter Diamandis is no stranger to exaggerating the future. But no coders in 5 years?