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Demand for coders like React monkeys and java bloats, yes. Demand for actual software engineers with a strong penchant for system design, no.
by AbsoluteCabbage 3y ago
Demand for coders like React monkeys and java bloats, yes. Demand for actual software engineers with a strong penchant for system design, no.
- Al0neStar 3y agoi might be wrong but i disagree with a lot of commenter's saying how they are not hiring juniors anymore or their seniors are 10x more productive even if they are just boilerplate programmers they are still more useful than tools like gpt and always will be (my opinion) my guess is that instead of juniors they will be called coding assistants.
- gedy 3y agoActually I've found the "React monkeys" you dismiss to be the people who work with product & UX on what the actually product being developed should do. The "backend people" who write API plumbing and DB tables are the ones I'd worry about.
- jselysianeagle 3y agoThat's a good point. However, it could also happen that a good chunk of frontend work gets folded directly into the product owner/manager role. Hard to say which way things could go but it's interesting to speculate.
- gedy 3y agoYes, while I agree AI code gen will be disruptive, I have a very hard time believing PMs or UX will soon be able to "talk to AI" and get an actual logical product out of that. The subset I've worked with certainly wouldn't. Feels like possibly the engineers will do more PM work.