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Hoping the industry at large realizes it will be a much more difficult task than it seems to automate things completely. Sure, you can do 80% of it with AI auto

Hoping the industry at large realizes it will be a much more difficult task than it seems to automate things completely. Sure, you can do 80% of it with AI automation, but how does the automation account for the new version of a programming language? How does the automation account for a new processor architecture? The AI is trained on vast amounts of data from real humans' I. If those humans go away, then there's nothing to train it on. Even more importantly as AI takes over more jobs--and there's a full Ted Talk on this somewhere--humans must ensure that we don't break the chain of passing knowledge down to the next generation that has existed for millions of years, otherwise we may end up as a civilization of adult babies.

mindcrime 3y ago
Hoping the industry at large realizes it will be a much more difficult task than it seems to automate things completely. True. But things don't have to be automated "completely" for there to be significant impact in terms of employment. We're probably borderline at a place now where AI could realistically start cutting into employment for the most junior folks in software development. Now project forward another 5 years, or 10 years, or whatever. How much more is AI going to advance? I posit that none of us know the answer to that question. So yeah, there might still be SDE's in, let's say 5 years. But will there be as many as there are today? I think that's an open question.