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Very poorly written. Author should have asked chatgpt to define some of these terms before publishing this.

My thoughts on are this The AIs are going to need to be supervised because if they mess up the company is still going to be liable so you're still going to have just the same people doing the work they're just going to be inspecting might be a bit more efficient but it's not going to erase the jobs

the only way to have basic coding go obsolete is for users to learn how to define their requirements... so never then. All they will end up with is the equivalent of advanced recorded macros

He should have asked the Chat to write the article.

Yes, just the same people will still be working, and it's not going to erase existing jobs, but the demand for new software developers will naturally decrease as this gets better.

Except for the fact that the demand for software is growing It should even out or possibly still grow

This is also give me one of those cases where boot camp kids are going to have a problem but degrees are going to be fine there's the higher level skills are going to become more important

It's going to get harder for BSc grads as well, because a chunk of them start off in the same position as those coding bootcamp kids.

My guess is that the industry will require increasingly higher education, more experience, and specified knowledge like the life sciences today. It's not impossible to get a good position in biotech when you graduate with a bio degree from college

The "hottest new programming language" should be called ambiguity or uncertainty.

The robots taking are jobs is happening a lot faster than I thought it would.

Any chat really. Not even just ChatGPT

The army of contract developers will work the way they always do. The army of contract BA's, project managers, and other managers will work the same way they always do. As usual, it will take years to get nothing done but a lot of money will be spent.

One thing that I could see a large language model doing an interesting job at is translating programs from one language to another.

And I've hired an army of contractors to make basic cooking obsolete. It's called fast food. WTF is this article?

Based on what I've seen when users from other domains jump into low-code applications, programmers are still going to be needed.

Jokes on them. I haven't coded in BASIC in decades.

Engineers are the most expensive employees in any org outside of executives. It makes sense someone is trying to “solve that problem”. Even if you could reduce a team of 6 to 2 plus AI tools, that’s a massive cost savings

Uhh…huh……skeptical

microsoft cannot wait to release visual basic 12

So they are going to basically replace stackedoverflow. :-)

I'm shitting bricks rn ... guess I'll just become a farmer then

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Easy coding has been obsolete since forever.

Every language updates makes coding “complex” things easier.

C to c++. Classes make things easier.

C++ to Java - managed code makes things easier

Python - simpler syntax makes things easier.

Can’t code at all? Use widgets in an if this than that visual workflow.

Want to create a website for your business… a non tech mom/dad can do it.

Want to deploy a new webservice all over the world with infinite scale. Push a button - and have a lot of money.

Backups, offline storage, server upgrades, geo redundancy- one button press away.

It’s not about coding. Its always been problem solving. Let me know when an AI can problem solve.

There has always been a wizard or template to create awesome websites. If an AI can save me from copy pasting a change or perform a refactoring pattern with a push of a button that’s an awesome time saver. But that value is over exaggerated. Because it’s a known problem.

When AIs can solve unknown problems and create business solutions that’s when it gets really valuable

If it can be used by a senior dev to produce code quickly, it could be a big win.

Also, the dev role would change to be more of a requirements analyst. Devs right now have to carry many hats, cutting down on that is also a big plus.

No such thing as a senior Dev once nobody is coming through the pipeline

Yeah, that's one of the things I've been mulling over.

However, in a way, this discussion isn't new. Developers these days in general don't start with writing assembly any more (which I actually did when I was 15) and so don't really understand how a CPU works. That has caused some of the same arguments. But has it become a problem really?

These days, developers start at a higher level of thinking about writing programs and go from there. AI code generators just raise that level even higher.

ChatGPT will replace them as well

To be honest, it would be really cool to have something like a compiler that can understand your code well enough to generate optimized assembly instead of interpreted javascript.

Openai has like the only Marketing team in tech that actually does work

40% of copilot generated code has security issues according to a study last year.

Also the unsettled issue of copyright poisoning.

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