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Do AI, Automation and the No-Code Movement Threaten Our Jobs?

6 points by fiberbrb 8y ago

fastbeef 8y ago
Considering there’s a viable business in Wix consulting, as in talking to customers and building the Wix site for them, I’d say we’re still good.
- commandlinefan 8y ago
  Yeah, I'm not too worried - programming as a profession may disappear, but it will be the very last profession to disappear. I'm not sure if that will happen in my lifetime or whether or not it's a good thing or a bad thing - if I'm one of the last people working while everybody else collects UBI, I'm not sure I'm going to consider my life choices the correct ones.
david927 8y ago
Yes, I think our jobs (as software developers) are threatened but the technologies that will replace what we do are still off the radar.
jppope 8y ago
Articles like this are always popular. I think the rest of us know though that code isn't really the important part, its the way that developers think. After all... Most of us use IDEs or Code editors that do a lot of the coding for us, and yet you never hear "IDEs are replacing programming jobs"
chrisco255 8y ago
While I love the idea of the "no-code" movement and I think it's important to lean on 3rd party services as much as possible for start-ups, it doesn't keep me up at night about my job security. There are always new implications when we go up a layer of abstraction in software development. An AI can be trained to do what it's trained to do (within limits), but it can't see the big picture. It doesn't have human context. Never mind the technical complications of teaching an AI to understand the hundreds of tools, libraries, frameworks, platforms, and languages out there. A software developer also needs domain knowledge to be useful (domain knowledge, by the way, is mostly tribal and not represented by code). AI will replace software developers once we develop General AI and no sooner.
gumby 8y ago
We should hope so, though it's hard to see it happening soon. Anything automatable should be, and a lot of "programming" today is really just simple assembly of building blocks -- a wonderful democratization of programming! It will be a while before the high end of programming goes away. But that's been a minority since the 1970s at least.

6 points by fiberbrb 8y ago

Considering there’s a viable business in Wix consulting, as in talking to customers and building the Wix site for them, I’d say we’re still good.

commandlinefan 8y ago
Yeah, I'm not too worried - programming as a profession may disappear, but it will be the very last profession to disappear. I'm not sure if that will happen in my lifetime or whether or not it's a good thing or a bad thing - if I'm one of the last people working while everybody else collects UBI, I'm not sure I'm going to consider my life choices the correct ones.

david927 8y ago

Yes, I think our jobs (as software developers) are threatened but the technologies that will replace what we do are still off the radar.

jppope 8y ago

Articles like this are always popular. I think the rest of us know though that code isn't really the important part, its the way that developers think. After all... Most of us use IDEs or Code editors that do a lot of the coding for us, and yet you never hear "IDEs are replacing programming jobs"

chrisco255 8y ago

While I love the idea of the "no-code" movement and I think it's important to lean on 3rd party services as much as possible for start-ups, it doesn't keep me up at night about my job security. There are always new implications when we go up a layer of abstraction in software development. An AI can be trained to do what it's trained to do (within limits), but it can't see the big picture. It doesn't have human context. Never mind the technical complications of teaching an AI to understand the hundreds of tools, libraries, frameworks, platforms, and languages out there. A software developer also needs domain knowledge to be useful (domain knowledge, by the way, is mostly tribal and not represented by code). AI will replace software developers once we develop General AI and no sooner.

gumby 8y ago

We should hope so, though it's hard to see it happening soon. Anything automatable should be, and a lot of "programming" today is really just simple assembly of building blocks -- a wonderful democratization of programming! It will be a while before the high end of programming goes away. But that's been a minority since the 1970s at least.