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How long until the industry doesn't get bigger by the day, and frontend devs + backend devs alike get automated away when AI can generate maintainable + readabl
by MuffinFlavored 7y ago
How long until the industry doesn't get bigger by the day, and frontend devs + backend devs alike get automated away when AI can generate maintainable + readable code for 95% of the "API + UI plumbing" that is out there?
- tracker1 7y agoJudging from every time someone has advertised "don't need programmers" services/software has actually worked, I doubt it will ever really happen in practice, at least not in the coming century or more.
- MuffinFlavored 7y agoI think high level business analysts could write some Markdown-like human readable syntax for things like: `apiRequest(method, url, requestParameters, headers, body)` `databaseQuery(credentials, sql, bindings)` The past 3-5 years of my professional career have just been shuffling data around from one point to another.
- papito 7y agoThis AI needs to understand first - in minor detail, what it is that it's actually building. Even two people can't understand each other sometimes, and what they are actually building. I installed RationalRose once, and... that was it. Code generation tools suck.