> With that said, I do believe AI will replace most developers in our lifetime.
I don't see this happening. I don't believe AI is anywhere near sophisticated enough to tackle the majority of problems that developers are solving on a day to day basis. Even if we somehow manage to have a major breakthrough with AI, it's not going to be commercially available/viable enough for average-joe dev shop to implement it.
I'm far more worried about AI replacing lower income jobs and widening the pay gap even more than I am about tech workers losing their jobs.
>A lot of what we do is converting business rules into code, storing that data, returning it, and performing some useful operation with it.
Sure, but you still need someone to make those business rules. I don't see AI being able to interpret the direction of MBA filled meeting rooms without some sort of translation later (i.e., developers).
AI is hype right now. I have not yet been convinced of its practical application, or anyone's real desire to invest in it (other than the handful of companies who would benefit off of its implementation).
I just find it interesting that the audience of this site, can't fathom engineers being replaced by AI. Not even in the next 50 years? That would put me in my 80s.
My Dad will be in his 80s in 15 years. If we look at the landscape of computers when he was my age, 30s, the big thing was still mainframe computers. The internet barely existed. Smartphones? Nope. What was the big programming language in 1990? Was it Pascal, BASIC or C++? Java wouldn't even come out for another 5 years. 15 years before that he was still loading punch cards into machines.
I guess we will just see. I won't be the surprised one though.
I don't see this happening. I don't believe AI is anywhere near sophisticated enough to tackle the majority of problems that developers are solving on a day to day basis. Even if we somehow manage to have a major breakthrough with AI, it's not going to be commercially available/viable enough for average-joe dev shop to implement it.
I'm far more worried about AI replacing lower income jobs and widening the pay gap even more than I am about tech workers losing their jobs.
>A lot of what we do is converting business rules into code, storing that data, returning it, and performing some useful operation with it.
Sure, but you still need someone to make those business rules. I don't see AI being able to interpret the direction of MBA filled meeting rooms without some sort of translation later (i.e., developers).
AI is hype right now. I have not yet been convinced of its practical application, or anyone's real desire to invest in it (other than the handful of companies who would benefit off of its implementation).