Let’s assume that in 10 years, AI has advanced absurdly, insanely fast, and is now capable of doing everything a Senior SWE can do. It can program in 15 different languages, 95% accuracy with almost no mistakes, can create entire applications in minutes, and no more engineers or SWEs are needed… What will all the devs do? Do they just become homeless? Transition to medical field, nursing? Become tradespeople like plumbers, HVAC?

  • Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Last time I used it the code it gave me wouldn’t actually run. After 6 iterations and fixing the rest it kind of worked. In theory that should only get better but I’m not sold yet.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      I would never have expected it to run, be shocked if it did. You use AI to get over humps, get new ideas and approaches. It’s excellent for time saving in those cases.

      AI isn’t ready to replace coders, but it’s quickly going to make a dent on the numbers needed.

      • Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        13 minutes ago

        I see your thought process there. But I’m not sure modern IDEs led to less devs. Time will tell but I just few most of this as vapor ware atm. Let’s also look at the fact that chatgpt is hemmoriging money even with high price tiers. It is possible this just burns itself out.