Ask HN: Will software jobs change if AI gets better
If AI does live up to the promise what do you think will be the change in your job. How will AI augment what you do on a daily basis to make you more efficient or change the nature of your work?
There will be several broad categories of change:
1. More software will become AI-powered, narrowing the domains where a human has to write code (counterbalanced by the continuing explosion of the variety of places that you can write code).
2. Better and smarter tools: IDEs that can see when you're coding Java in Python and can suggest a more idiomatic alternative, debuggers that understand off-by-one errors, up to and including AI pair-programming.
3. More expressive high-level programming languages (including ones not based on English-like syntax) with implementations (whether interpreters or compilers) that may not be entirely comprehensible to a human.
4. AI workloads continue to push chip architectures toward more cores, and parallelism-related skills become more important.
5. AI-driven IC design may restart Moore's Law in earnest.
6. Better machine translation further levels the global playing field.