Productivity boost with artificial Intelligence

 Programming in computer science works different in each year. In the 1980s a typical pong clone was realized in Assembly language which takes around 2 weeks until the program is running error free. The result is, that there are two paddles on the screen which can be moved with a joystick and the self created game engine counts the score.

In the 1990s the typical programming language was C which allows to program the same game much faster. Its assumed that the average programmer can create a pong clone in C in around 3 days by using existing graphics libraries and tutorials from the Internet. This might explain why C has replaced assembly programming.

Todays situation in the year 2026 is, that with the help of large language models its possible to create python code for a pong videogame in around 10 minutes. The programmer formulates the text prompt and is testing the generated python code on the local macihne.

In future its likely that the producivity will increase more, perhaps its possobiel to create a pong clone in under 3 seconds and program more advanced software also with Artificial intelligence.