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Not sure about your analogy. Doctors do many things apart from ‘identify disease and treat symptoms’. More importantly, doctors like to do the other things they

by Gatsky 7y ago

Not sure about your analogy. Doctors do many things apart from ‘identify disease and treat symptoms’. More importantly, doctors like to do the other things they do eg counselling patients, bedside manner, shared decision making, working in a multidisciplinary team, patient advocacy, policy developmemt. Many coders love to just write code, they wish they could just write code in fact, without the other stuff a job inevitably entails. That’s why AI replacement is a risk - the job will change into something different (probably with the word ‘evangelist’ in the title) which is probably not as appealing to many.

NeverFade 7y ago
Software engineer do a lot more than just "write code". They communicate with stakeholders, help design and spec out the product, participate in team sessions, etc, etc.
- Gatsky 7y ago
  Yeah, my point is that software engineering may end up becoming just exactly the things you have listed without the writing code parts... and that is probably going to annoy a lot of software engineers, not to mention the fact that other types of people who would never write code could be better at communication, design etc
  - NeverFade 7y ago
    > Yeah, my point is that software engineering may end up becoming just exactly the things you have listed without the writing code parts I really doubt that. Who'd do all the code writing? AI?
    - Gatsky 7y ago
      In the next 20 years, maybe. In the longer term, probably.
ng12 7y ago
How many doctors are making 300k/year for their bedside manner? Knowledge work is a huge part of what makes it such a valuable trade.