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copilot is just a prototype. imagine in 10-20 years, software engineers as we know it will be obsolete.
by mysore 4y ago
copilot is just a prototype. imagine in 10-20 years, software engineers as we know it will be obsolete.
- mikepurvis 4y agoLots of other languages, tools, libraries, and frameworks have already made SWEs orders of magnitude more productive over the course of the last 40+ years. I don't think there's any indication of the field shrinking or slowing down as a result of that though.
- joshthecynic 4y ago
- cush 4y ago
- bodge5000 4y agoI remember when this was said about visual-programming. That didn't exactly pan out
- reaperducer 4y agoimagine in 10-20 years, software engineers as we know it will be obsolete. I've heard people saying this since the mid-70's. I lump it into the same trash bin with flying cars and orbiting space hotels, and "90 minutes from New York to Paris — undersea by rail." Things envisioned by artists that will never happen in my lifetime, or yours.
- edgyquant 4y agoYea because in the future everyone will write code and things like Copilot get us there. You’re probably an engineer who likes making way more than average. So you’re biased