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I do some coding but not as a full time job. And I have to admit that when I think of AI replacing a coder's job it seems so far off. Maybe it's because I'm in

I do some coding but not as a full time job. And I have to admit that when I think of AI replacing a coder's job it seems so far off. Maybe it's because I'm in the thick of it and can't see the forest for the trees. When this comes up I often wonder what part is AI going to replace? Will it: 1) Assess a business opportunity, design, and develop, deploy, and operate an entire technology solution? 2) If not that, will it pick up at some part of the value chain above and be able to figure out how to do the rest? It seems more likely to me that the tooling for workers in this value chain will get more advanced. Some of that might include some computer intelligence that is able to perform some tasks on its own.

Hydraulix989 10y ago
"WIll it? 1) Assess a business opportunity, design, and develop, deploy, and operate an entire technology solution?" At all of my software engineering jobs, I only ever performed tasks that accomplished what one would consider a small fraction of one list item here -- "develop." So to answer your question, mostly no. You're describing something that an entrepreneur does, not a coder. "2) If not that, will it pick up at some part of the value chain above and be able to figure out how to do the rest?" Yes, the "develop"-ment (deployment is getting automated already -- Chef, Heroku, etc. -- and operate is also largely automated now thanks to things like cloud computing services). Case in point: Why did WhatsApp have so few employees for its billion users? Well, automation made launching a web startup (doing (1), as you described) a much leaner proposition. As you can see, AI is not a necessary condition for automation. I have no reason to believe these trends will reverse course.