>I wonder if data scientists and AI will do a similar thing to software engineers. I don't really see how. Software development is about translating arbitrary

>I wonder if data scientists and AI will do a similar thing to software engineers. I don't really see how. Software development is about translating arbitrary requirements into a rigorous form without ambiguity (ie the developer has to fill in the blanks). Unless we invent AGI we would need the 'clients' of software development to be able to unambiguously list their requirements (without there being any blanks that need to be filled in). Effectively, they'd have to become devs themselves. It might not look like the software development of today of writing text, but they'd still be doing a similar type of job.