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Some will take your comment as irony, but he has a Phd in Electrical Engineering from UIUC and I would trust him more than an MBA.

"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."

That's the CEO of AWS. At this rate, in 24 months china is going to take over the software industry despite their significant lag compared to the US.

That last quote hurt me so much.

If that’s my job, why do I have no influence on the product?

What’s the point of product managers?

> 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.

Can you imagine the CEO of the lead cloud provider telling his Developers:

"Coding is just kind of like the language that we talk to computers. It's not necessarily the skill in and of itself"

Yeah, they do it all the time.

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.

Lol, I'm a junior PM and I have the same question - in the end, developers tend to do whatever the fuck they want anyway...

> developers tend to do whatever the fuck they want anyway

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.

Lol, nice try, I have enough self-running devs...

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.

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