That's where I see AI-written software going, write-once. Some talented engineer gets an AI system to create a whole k8s cluster to run an application and if any changes need to be made, bugs fixed, it will take another talented engineer to come in and have an AI write a replacement and throw out the old one.
Reminds me of this blog, The real value isn’t in the code [0], we're heading for a world that is only code and no one who knows what it does. But maybe it won't matter.
[0] https://jonayre.uk/blog/2022/10/30/the-real-value-isnt-in-th...
You don't. Unless the person is super brilliant I just don't think the industry needs many more new people, there are enough for the next 1-2 decades and after that humans will probably not be needed at all.
People should go where the demand is - medicine, education, policing or whatever it may be.
'Where' is becoming an increasingly small niche with ever higher educational requirements.
I don't see the corporate path being the best way given the circumstances.
holy gaslighting Christ have some links, lots of people think that
https://www.reddit.com/r/ITCareerQuestions/comments/126v3pm/...
https://medium.com/technology-hits/the-death-of-coding-why-c...
https://medium.com/@TheRobertKiyosaki/are-programmers-obsole...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hessiejones/2024/09/21/the-auto...
and on and on, endless thinkpieces about this. Certainly SOMEONE, someone with a lot of money, thinks software engineers are imminently replaceable.
> until the singularity curve starts looking funny.
well there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that we've made any progress to bringing about Kurzweil's God so I think regardless of what Sam Altman wants you to believe about "general AI" or those thinkpieces, experts are probably okay.
Coding/engineering/etc is all problem solving in a strucutred manner.
That skill is not going anywhere
I wouldn't have to listen to people talk about it all the time if nobody thought it was true
To them, it seems LLMs are also perfectly capable of typing odd sequences of characters.
The idea that SWEs do actual structured problem solving is mostly native to industry insiders.
The verb you use when you only need to produce boilerplate.
> Prompt™
The verb you use when it's time to innovate.