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It's hard to agree with your conclusion that AI will start to replace the need for developers when the premises of your argument aren't even correct. > First,

It's hard to agree with your conclusion that AI will start to replace the need for developers when the premises of your argument aren't even correct. > First, the internet killed the need for sales teams This is simply not true. Sales teams are absolutely still needed and continue to provide lots of value, especially in b2b. > Then, serverless computing eliminated IT teams I'm honestly left scratching my head here. This is not true at all! > And now, AI is breaking the last barrier—software development itself. ...

gatienboquet 2y ago
A sales team is even more important! Actual humans to talk to you—this is the future! The demand for non-automated, human tasks will skyrocket. Our society will shift back to being human-centric, just like before any automation.
edgarvaldes 2y ago
Yeah the premise of the article is totally wrong.
alabastervlog 2y ago
It's like someone took the most extreme hype for a bunch of past shifts, all of which have already played out so we know they definitely did not work out that way, as if all the hype described what had actually happened, then also took the same hype for "AI" and assumed all that's going to be, or is, true, too.
logicfiction 2y ago
I think they presented it wrong for impact. If instead of "killed" and "eliminated" they were saying that the internet made it possible to proceed without a sales team and that cloud computing made it possible to not need a bare metal IT team, it makes a little more sense. That is to say, it's not going to be the most effective way, but it went from impossible to at least viable. Similar to music recording. It used to be you needed competent instrumentalists and access to a commercial recording studio. Now you can do it all at home on a laptop and it is viable, people are successfully doing it. But in large part the most successful music is still done using the same professionals that existed before.

gatienboquet 2y ago

A sales team is even more important! Actual humans to talk to you—this is the future! The demand for non-automated, human tasks will skyrocket. Our society will shift back to being human-centric, just like before any automation.

edgarvaldes 2y ago

Yeah the premise of the article is totally wrong.

alabastervlog 2y ago

It's like someone took the most extreme hype for a bunch of past shifts, all of which have already played out so we know they definitely did not work out that way, as if all the hype described what had actually happened, then also took the same hype for "AI" and assumed all that's going to be, or is, true, too.

logicfiction 2y ago

I think they presented it wrong for impact. If instead of "killed" and "eliminated" they were saying that the internet made it possible to proceed without a sales team and that cloud computing made it possible to not need a bare metal IT team, it makes a little more sense. That is to say, it's not going to be the most effective way, but it went from impossible to at least viable. Similar to music recording. It used to be you needed competent instrumentalists and access to a commercial recording studio. Now you can do it all at home on a laptop and it is viable, people are successfully doing it. But in large part the most successful music is still done using the same professionals that existed before.