[c048]

This is why I don't listen at all to the fearmongers that say programmers will disappear. At most, our jobs will slightly change.

There will always be people that describe a problem, and you'll always need people actually figuring out what's actually wrong.

[croes]

The problem isn’t the AI but the management that believes the PR. It doesn’t matter if AI can replace developers but if the management thinks it can.

[breakpointalpha]

That's only a problem in the short term.

Watch the company fire 50% of the engineering team then hit a brick wall at 100mph.

[ACCount36]

What makes you look at existing AI systems and then say "oh, this totally isn't capable of describing a problem or figuring out what's actually wrong"? Let alone "this wouldn't EVER be capable of that"?

[benterix]

> What makes you look at existing AI systems and then say "oh, this totally isn't capable of describing a problem or figuring out what's actually wrong"?

I wouldn't say they're completely incapable.

* They can spot (and fix) low hanging fruit instantly

* They will also "fix" things that were left out there for a reason and break things completely

* even if the code base fits entirely in their context window, as does the complete company knowledge base, including Slack conversations etc., the proposed solutions sometimes take a very strange turn, in spite of being correct 57.8% of the time.

[croes]

Turn the question around „oh, this totally is capable of describing a problem and figuring out what's actually wrong“

Even a broken clock is right two times a day.

The question is reliability.

What worked today may not work tomorrow and vice versa.

[satyrun]

At this point it is just straight denial.

Like when a relationship is obviously over. Some people enjoy the ending fleeting moments while others delude themselves that they just have to get over the hump and things will go back to normal.

I suspect a lot of the denial is from the 30 something CRUD app lottery winner. One of the smart kids all through school, graduated into a ripping CRUD app job market and then if they didn't even feel the 2022 downturn, they now see themselves as irreplaceable CRUD app genius. Something understandable since the environment has never signaled anything to the contrary until now.