Yes. I've been working for 20+ years doing web applications. There have been various tools or movements over that time that had promises of generating code for

Yes. I've been working for 20+ years doing web applications. There have been various tools or movements over that time that had promises of generating code for developers (like GPT may do today) with associated benefits of not having to write software, jobs going offshore, etc. None of them came fully true. I don't expect AI to help in any significant way in the next 3-5 years where there is an industry wide shift in how we work. Writing boiler plate code for a brand new web app is super simple. In the span of 20+ years, I've maybe done that a handful of times where that was needed for a work project (many more times personally exploring things, etc.) The hard part about software development isn't typing/generating code, its getting to a level of shared understanding about what is being requested from other humans and what constraints there are with delivering that and making decisions about trade-offs. Then there is all the non-functional elements of running software in production: scalability, maintenance, patching, security, monitoring, etc.