Kind of crazy how fast AI has progressed. A few years ago everyone was being told to “learn to code” for a job and now all of those jobs are being eliminated because of AI.
It seems to me that having AI that is really good at writing its own code would be a really good reason for people to maintain programming skills so that we can have some hope of trying to control said AI. If we say "the computers can code for themselves now so we don't need to know how," we're pretty much ceding control of the entire world to the machines.
Kind of crazy how fast AI has progressed. A few years ago everyone was being told to “learn to code” for a job and now all of those jobs are being eliminated because of AI.
whoever thinks programming can be as simple as asking an AI "make me a program to do X Y and Z" has never programmed.
A computer program is a huge tree of decisions and procedures. To make it work how you want, you need to make all of them. If you don't, then whoever wrote the AI decides. Or worse, however the AI just randomly through its "machine learning" guesses what you would want.
Look at it this way. Advertizing analytics and trackers are WAY ahead of AI, having spent decades studying just YOU. They have surely already integrated the most advanced AI by now. But do the ads work? Do they show you what you want? If you could ask their AI, "send me a pair of my favorite shoes," would they get it right?
Kind of crazy how fast AI has progressed. A few years ago everyone was being told to “learn to code” for a job and now all of those jobs are being eliminated because of AI.
AI will make it so you can speak into a microphone and create a program.
No education necessary.
And you will be your own agent.
(Anybody remember back to the 70’s and early 80’s when there were punch cards?)
Just a stones throw away.
"AI" is built and maintained by programmers
90% of Silicon Valley, San Francisco based AI Engineers have less than 6 months of AI experience. There was no AI, ML, LLM classes to take when they were in college.
AI will make it so you can speak into a microphone and create a program.
No education necessary.
And you will be your own agent.
(Anybody remember back to the 70’s and early 80’s when there were punch cards?)
Just a stones throw away.
Who will program the AI? Who will fix AI programs when they break?
Robots replace humans. They link and combine symbolic models in Japan so the robots learn together and use the same brains simultaneously. The rest of the world doesn't do robot AI much.
If you're purposely using the term "programmer" and not SWE, then it's not a terrible post. AI will get rid of a lot of code monkeys who don't really understand what they're doing. But real SWEs/Architects aren't going anywhere anytime soon