This man is incredibly prescient. No wonder he is CEO of IBM!
"In a leaked recording, Amazon cloud chief tells employees that most developers could stop coding soon as AI takes over" - https://www.businessinsider.com/aws-ceo-developers-stop-codi...
""If you go forward 24 months from now, or some amount of time — I can't exactly predict where it is — it's possible that most developers are not coding," said Garman, who became AWS's CEO in June.
"Coding is just kind of like the language that we talk to computers. It's not necessarily the skill in and of itself," the executive said. "The skill in and of itself is like, how do I innovate? How do I go build something that's interesting for my end users to use?"
This means the job of a software developer will change, Garman said."
If that’s my job, why do I have no influence on the product?
What’s the point of product managers?
Many of us have been asking this for years. Including those of us who have been product managers.
"Coding is just kind of like the language that we talk to computers. It's not necessarily the skill in and of itself"
they’re talking at the devs, but really talking to the market, since their job is partially to pump their own stock price.
You can’t believe public CEO statements.
Can you get me a job where you work?
Everywhere I’ve worked in the past 10 years as a developer, I’ve had 0 ability to do whatever the fuck I want.
I guess it's a cultural thing. Our CEO and CTO still commit code every other week (occasionally driving us mad), it's still a very bottom-up org despite having thousands of people now.
IBM pushed Linux very hard and contributed significantly to it's adoption- it would be revisionist to think otherwise.
They also created quite literally legendary laptops, before deciding that they didn't want to and then moved on.
I mean, their stock is not hurting as much as we think of them as a relic of the past: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/IBM/?guccounter=1&guce_refer...
IBM has many shortcomings but they did manage to survive and navigate a century of tumultuous technological changes. Very few companies have done that.