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> I don’t think anyone expects software engineers will disappear holy gaslighting Christ have some links, lots of people think that https://www.reddit.com/r/I

> I don’t think anyone expects software engineers will disappear holy gaslighting Christ have some links, lots of people think that https://www.reddit.com/r/ITCareerQuestions/comments/126v3pm/since_coding_is_probably_becoming_obsolete_what/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ITCareerQuestions/comments/126v3pm/... https://medium.com/technology-hits/the-death-of-coding-why-coding-will-be-obsolete-in-5-years-ad24234bba73 https://medium.com/technology-hits/the-death-of-coding-why-c... https://medium.com/@TheRobertKiyosaki/are-programmers-obsolete-59c9c65f8992 https://medium.com/@TheRobertKiyosaki/are-programmers-obsole... https://www.forbes.com/sites/hessiejones/2024/09/21/the-automation-takeover-are-software-engineers-becoming-obsolete/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/hessiejones/2024/09/21/the-auto... and on and on, endless thinkpieces about this. Certainly SOMEONE, someone with a lot of money, thinks software engineers are imminently replaceable. > until the singularity curve starts looking funny. well there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that we've made any progress to bringing about Kurzweil's God so I think regardless of what Sam Altman wants you to believe about "general AI" or those thinkpieces, experts are probably okay.

cdolan 1y ago
I think you are correct that people say this, but its absurd that they are saying it in the first place. Coding/engineering/etc is all problem solving in a strucutred manner. That skill is not going anywhere
- dingnuts 1y ago
  oh I agree but the last three years has felt like an endless chorus of people telling me SWE was going to be obsolete very soon so I had to push back against the idea that "nobody" thinks that. I wouldn't have to listen to people talk about it all the time if nobody thought it was true
  - daveguy 1y ago
    (not GP) To be fair, just because someone says something doesn't mean they believe it. Most of those folks have to know they're being absurd. But I agree saying "nobody" thinks something is over the top. People on the internet can be quite looney tunes.
    - mediaman 1y ago
      A lot of people believe that programming is the typing of odd sequences of characters into a computer. To them, it seems LLMs are also perfectly capable of typing odd sequences of characters. The idea that SWEs do actual structured problem solving is mostly native to industry insiders.
      - daveguy 1y ago
        Thank you for this. A very well stated explanation of a major reason the hype is soo off base from the people doing the work every day.

cdolan 1y ago

I think you are correct that people say this, but its absurd that they are saying it in the first place. Coding/engineering/etc is all problem solving in a strucutred manner. That skill is not going anywhere

dingnuts 1y ago
oh I agree but the last three years has felt like an endless chorus of people telling me SWE was going to be obsolete very soon so I had to push back against the idea that "nobody" thinks that. I wouldn't have to listen to people talk about it all the time if nobody thought it was true
- daveguy 1y ago
  (not GP) To be fair, just because someone says something doesn't mean they believe it. Most of those folks have to know they're being absurd. But I agree saying "nobody" thinks something is over the top. People on the internet can be quite looney tunes.
  - mediaman 1y ago
    A lot of people believe that programming is the typing of odd sequences of characters into a computer. To them, it seems LLMs are also perfectly capable of typing odd sequences of characters. The idea that SWEs do actual structured problem solving is mostly native to industry insiders.
    - daveguy 1y ago
      Thank you for this. A very well stated explanation of a major reason the hype is soo off base from the people doing the work every day.