ChatGPT and the Future of Coding Quiz

According to the text, which of the following professions is NOT mentioned as fearing replacement by AI?

• Software engineers

• Translators

• Copy editors

• Doctors

Who considered hardware and systems architecture the true intellectual pursuits within the field of computing?

• Edsger Dijkstra

• John Backus

• NATO organizers

• Computer scientists

What did the early programmers, who were mostly women, save people like John Backus from having to bother with?

• Menial tasks

• Programming, debugging, and testing

• Hardware and systems architecture

• Secretarial work

What did the early days of computers frequently require of self-taught software engineers?

• To have a clear place within preexisting departments

• To manage complicated interactions with coders

• To work on programs they alone had made

• To work on programs created by others

What was the intended purpose of COBOL's English syntax?

• To standardize software development

• To simplify the work of managers

• To replace computer programmers

• To make it easier for users to do their own programming

What did the conference sponsored by NATO in 1968 declare about the state of software engineering?

• There was a need for more complex processes

• There were no major issues with large projects

• There was a crisis with too few people to do the work

• There was a surplus of people to do the work

What is the potential role of large language models (LLMs) according to the text?

• To replace all software engineers

• To eliminate the need for managers

• To speed up conversations between engineers

• To remove some of the drudgery for developers

What did Edsger Dijkstra observe about programming in relation to the advancement of computers?

• It became easier with the introduction of complexity

• The bigger the computer, the harder the work

• It was no problem at all with machines

• It became a mild problem with weak computers