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Stuff like this is why the notion that AI will eat all the software jobs in a few years is so ridiculous to me: who will maintain all the infra? Maybe AI will v
by seanp2k2 3y ago
Stuff like this is why the notion that AI will eat all the software jobs in a few years is so ridiculous to me: who will maintain all the infra? Maybe AI will very eventually, but there's still a whole lot that needs to happen for the AI magic to magic, and it's not like VPs are going to be able to write implementable specs in enough detail for an AI SWE to implement them, wire them into the right branch / tag / whatever in the release system, communicate with stakeholders to plan a deployment, do the release, monitor for bugs / regressions, patch as necessary and port those into the dev branch, etc etc.
There's a whole lot more to modern SWE roles than just staring at an IDE with the job "implement a function that given X returns the square of X" type stuff that current AI can implement well.