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Agreed, but the question is: how many other other programmers do you need on your team now? How much of their work will be taken over by our new AI magic boxes?
by spaceman_2020 4y ago
Agreed, but the question is: how many other other programmers do you need on your team now? How much of their work will be taken over by our new AI magic boxes?
You have to see this from the perspective of non-tech companies, who see tech as a cost-center, not a profit or innovation center.
Does your regional grocery store that just needs some tools that can help it track inventory really care whether its code comes from a team of big brained humans or two programmers in a basement copy-pasting chatGPT answers?
- paxys 4y agoYou can say the same thing for any other advancement in software engineering. Did good IDE tooling reduce the number of programmers? Explosion in open source libraries? Cloud computing? A single programmer with a laptop can do in minutes today what it took entire companies of hundreds of professionals and a large amount of funding a few decades ago. Yet the size of the industry hasn't shrunk in the same period – quite the opposite in fact. There is more need and demand for programmers today than ever before.
- spaceman_2020 4y agoAgree with that as well - there's a good argument to be made that companies will find entirely new product lines and efficiencies once they free their developers from fixing low-level problems and bugs. It's going to be an exciting few years to say the least.
- exceptione 4y agoHow much software does your grocery store needs? Don't you think there will be a limit to that? If cost vs revenue allows for more developers, yes, you can see the happy path. No wonder you observed this at the start of the software revolution. The app stores are already overcrowded.