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AI will 100x the number of engineers
- JohnFen 2y agoI don't think that these predictions will prove accurate, but they're absolutely riddled with the fallacy that what the author prefers and considers "fun" or "boring" are universal opinions. For instance: > In the future, being an engineer will mean managing a fleet of AI agents. Instead of writing code, you'll delegate tasks, review PRs, and provide feedback. It will be like being the tech lead of hundreds of dev interns. If this is actually the future, it sounds like a complete nightmare to me. "Hey, let's replace the parts of the job that are fun and fulfilling with being a manager!" If that were the nature of the job at the start of my career, I would have run from the field as quickly as I could have.
- graypegg 2y agoI don't think I believe this as an accurate prediction of the future, but if anything like this comes to be, I think I'll probably just keep doing what I'm doing now, for fun. The predictions here sound pretty bleak. I don't want to manage a team of LLMs sloshing around vectors all day. I can only hope I finish out a fulfilling life doing things I think are interesting that the author seems to dislike in favour of "non-deterministic software" and "manage[-ing] AI tools". I await their first non-deterministic nuclear power plant from a safe distance!