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I guess what freaks me out is that if this is true, how can't it be true for people that write code? And how much longer do I have, than my artist sibling?
by digitalsushi 4y ago
I guess what freaks me out is that if this is true, how can't it be true for people that write code? And how much longer do I have, than my artist sibling?
- SanjayMehta 4y agoI wouldn't worry. Over the years programmers have learnt to operate at a higher level of abstraction than the previous generation. How many people still code in assembly vs (say) Javascript?
- a-dub 4y agoi think it may be a little while. it's relatively easy to label images with text, yet much more complicated to do the same for complicated software systems. a bigger threat to swe is probably off-shoring, which will probably pick up as a result of remote work popularity and economic belt tightening.
- qup 4y agoTo write functional code you (usually) have to understand a lot of things (the problem you're solving, the overall architecture, the implications of your code). I don't think any of the current AI tech demonstrates any kind of "understanding." The image-generators are closest, but if AI-generated images were code, almost all of them would be unusable. I think coding jobs are safe until AGI. That being said, I think copilot and similar can fill in a lot of blanks, because we often solve the same problems repeatedly. (I haven't used them FWIW). They're like a library of solutions, not a brain that invents a new solution.
- stuckinhell 4y agoI'm worried our time is coming to end too. CRUD apps, custom implementation of our platform are the bread and butter of my megacorp. Honestly I could see an AI replacing many many of our business analysts, artists, ux engineers, and configuration developers.