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From the article in that link: > It’s highly unlikely that software developers are going away any time soon. The job is definitely going to change, but I think
by paulcole 2y ago
From the article in that link:
> It’s highly unlikely that software developers are going away any time soon. The job is definitely going to change, but I think there are going to be even more opportunities for software developers to make a comfortable living making cool stuff.
And then what you said:
> I think this effect will be even greater this time (last time being higher-level “slow” languages like python and js), because AI will allow for a new wave of developers who won’t care about the “right” code that much and will perceive it as a disposable resource rather than a form of art
I agree.
The problem up until now is that Learn to Code has always been a massive chasm to cross for most people. So like doing anything let alone anything useful felt like it was miles away for most people just getting started.
I’m at a digital marketing agency and recently started our new hires on a AI 101 course I made that introduces them to how we use AI and various scripting/automation tools and just challenges them to make something useful and show it to me.
We’re not really using ChatGPT to summarize an email or something like that. I mean like being able to chain together Google Apps Scripts, Asana API, Zapier, and something else to automate and simplify one of the repetitive tasks that you do everyday. And using ChatGPT to generate the code for each step of the chain.
It’s been interesting to see how nearly all of them just go with it and don’t have any doubt or hesitation. But I think if you gave those same people a “learn to code” course, they’d think, “This isn’t something I’ll be good at.”