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I think in the future, there will be programs to write 50% of the code for you in some way and (if DARPA get this right) you may have code that lasts a lot long
by tkyjonathan 11y ago
I think in the future, there will be programs to write 50% of the code for you in some way and (if DARPA get this right) you may have code that lasts a lot longer and does not need to be rewritten.
So like programmers are making jobs in other professions irrelevant now, they will likely make jobs of other programmers irrelevant in the future.
- ivan_ah 11y agoA friend of mine told how powerful SharePoint (a M$ product) is for automating workflows, information sharing, reports and all. He's technical, but definitely not a programmer and he's able to run/script all the business processes in his company. So it makes sense what you're saying---with the right tools (Frameworks, GUIs, DSLs), many of todays "coding jobs" might go away.
- woah 11y agoI don't really understand the thing about computers writing code and this resulting in less demand for programmers. Don't computers already write a lot of code in the form of compilers, frameworks, preprocessors etc.? Seems that these technologies only make demand go up. If anything, code generation is the worst option out of any form of code reuse and results in code that is entirely unmaintainable. Code generation is often a sign of a language that handles abstraction badly, like Java. I can imagine some form of ai that instead o being trained to recognize images etc., is trained to present an interface. However this will likely be deathly slow and require custom code for anything custom anyway.