Coding Won’t Exist In 5 Years. This Is Why
Those who won’t adapt would cease to exist.
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I don’t know.
I am a software engineer.
Coding to me is an intellectual capital thing.
An AI tool can only give you options. You have to decide how to put those options together.
This. There is SOOOOOO much more to making good software than just programming. That's barely the start of it. It's more information architecture, roadmapping & planning, user interface, and savvy marketing, not to mention having a monopoly like Microsoft has, LOL
Yes but lets be honest. All the database guys are foooked!
J/k! (I hope)
Anyone, except for a very few software architects and a small number of low level QA guys are, to borrow your word, fooked. Much like industrial robotics eventually drove out factory jobs which, in the beginning, looked too complicated for automation. AI is going to continuously improve at putting options together into a complete program, until it eventually can predict the optimal structure for software and solve a problem better than any human.
One or two software architects are all future tech companies will need to direct the AI about the problems it needs to solve, replacing whole teams of programmers today. The same is true of doctors, lawyers, accountants, etc. As well as all the managers that organize them. All those positions are going. It happened before in other professions. It is now time for white collar and managerial classes.
Well said!
...valid observation....
I was just going to say something similar, as an Admin in the field. I see it a better tool to use.... so far.
Agreed!
Nature writes code.
Lots of trial and error.
This sis correct.
We know.. what we don’t know.
Nah, coding won’t exist due to AI, coding won’t exist because 1/2 the population will be dead and the rest will be eating cans of cat food behind the burned down market in a post apocalyptic world.
...one of the many reasons that I can find contentment in old age....
gofmt ftw!
...indeed...
This article is a good reference to all the things you can leverage an AI to help you with coding - doing simple repetitive tasks, debugging, refactoring, etc etc.
All this stuff is just "code-helper", but, concluding that "coding wont exist" in 5 years is a far far stretch. Coding is a lot more than all this. Infact, good e-lisp script can do a lot of this even without an AI, but does not mean that it does all the coding (when I first started I was dreaming about writing emacs macros to do all my coding! but it never went anywhere)
There are still frontiers within in the realm of "code helper" that is not even close to being tackled by an AI, let alone replacing "coding".
Let me summarize this in a simple way.
As long as a human has to tell the computer what to do, it's coding. So as long as that is necessary, coding aint going anywhere. It might look a lot like natural language, but it will still be code written (dictated) by an expert.
...valid observation....
I agree!