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AI hasn't really come for programming yet. Copilot, imperfect as it is, is proof that the problem can be approached. I think junior software engineers could re
by smallerfish 4y ago
AI hasn't really come for programming yet. Copilot, imperfect as it is, is proof that the problem can be approached.
I think junior software engineers could realistically be obsolete in 5 years. Imagine a software architect being able to prompt: "write a rest API that exposes user data from system A to internal system B", and have a complete API dumped out, with tests, ready to be deployed.
- notjustanymike 4y agoSounds a bit like Zapier. Love that tool.
- badpun 4y agoMaintaing code written by such AI must be truly nightmarish...
- smallerfish 4y agoImagine that it only had black box testing - you can verify the ins and outs, and don't care about the middle. The AI's responsible for the entire codebase for that particular API. I don't believe this will scale to all software anytime soon, but the type of thing that junior engineers work on is vulnerable.
- navane 4y agoIf junior software engineers are obsolete in five years, where would we get senior software engineers from in fifteen years?