[ilikerashers]

My view is that Ai companies saw there was a huge volume of code online and decided coding was a text generation problem and easy to replace.

I don't buy it. I also don't think it'll replace writers or artists. Just the low brow, chum bucket stuff which in programming terms is a todo app or web form.

[bilbo0s]

Just the low brow, chum bucket stuff

I think, as software devs, we sometimes kid ourselves with respect to how many of us are working on low brow, chum bucket stuff.

Most of us are not working on GPU based real time physics engines. What most of us do is, well, not rocket science. Even people working in "hard" areas are not really doing the "hard" work. Most game engine developers are using libraries, they aren't developing shaders. Most AI developers are, in actuality, TF or PyTorch monkeys, not real AI experts.

I think devs who move to writing code in areas where problems have not yet been solved will still be necessary. But yeah, not sure devs pushing out another web app will be all that necessary over the next decade.

[ilikerashers]

While I agree we're not all implementing physics engines, there is a spectrum of complexity that is both business and technical between a todo app and a banking system.

Developer brains are still much more efficient at holding the different layers of context involved to build systems.