Ask HN: What will the role of the programmer be in 2029?

[mbm]

Fast forward to 2029. For most programmers, what does their role look like? Are there more or less of us?

[illuminant]

Strategists.

Normal humans are cognitively incapable of the consistency necessary to kept technology reliable.

Trained specialists will "always" be necessary to translate (at some layer) between human requirements and their technology.

This line may move and change with time, yet for as long as there are human stakeholders, there will be human technology specialists who ensure the proper articulation of needs are implemented and maintained. These shall be called "programmers."

I think programmers in 2029 will be doing pretty much the same as today, only LLM will replace junior programmers, and then intermediates, and finally seniors, only leaving the specialists behind.

There will no doubt be a great culling, yet those who know it is for them shall survive.

[mrkeen]

Backend: turning JSON into stack traces as efficiently as possible.

Frontend: trying to fill the browser console with as much red text as possible.