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If one coder can do the work of four, the other three are out of a job.
by sp332 4y ago
If one coder can do the work of four, the other three are out of a job.
- penteract 4y agoWhich is exactly why programmer numbers plummeted as development shifted to higher level languages.
- tarkin2 4y agoFair, though sadly sarky, argument. Those languages came about during the boom of websites and apps, however. And more code was being written, rewritten and maintained by coders--now, instead, it's looking like it'll be generated, tested, analysed and regenerated.
- superfrank 4y agoAlmost every company I've worked at have more ideas for projects than coders. The constraint has been how much they're willing to spend on R&D and not how much work they can think up. If one developer can all of a sudden do the work of four, I think leadership is just going expect higher output from the same number of people.
- tarkin2 4y agoThis is the only comment that has made me less worried about AI. If AI gets to the point where an end user can easily describe the app or website they want, however, then it won't just be the programmers who are in trouble.