Will AI Replace Software Engineers? A 30-Year Veteran's Perspective

Will AI Replace Software Engineers? A 30-Year Veteran's Perspective

0:00 Welcome to Savannah, Georgia!
0:29 Impact of AI on Software Engineers
1:16 Why We Are Going to Need More Programmers
2:25 Examples of Software Shortages
3:30 Conclusion

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[sampeppp]

This is some of the best analysis I've heard. As a person who has built applications for 7 years now, I thank you. Most of the negative comments seem to be from people who have never actually built software.

[eztyson]

As someone teaching themselves to code right now I appreciate hearing this message. Thank you 🙏

[harrellt]

Last part is inspirational. As a ce im a bit iffy about chatgpt. All i know is that i better learn it soon so i dont get left behind

[Michael-eivy]

You're right we're going to need more programmers. The only problem is everyone will be a programmer. Just prompt an AI. Words are just the next layer of abstraction

[maksymdudyk]

The author is wrong. The fact that business will always need a lot of software and that is why programmers will always be needed in millions is no argument at all.

AI is drastically changing the way we write software: instead of months, spent on planning and making it up, we will use Ai promts when talking to AI how to IN SECONDS design or test software. We will tell AI something like: Build me this or that system for air flight control, make the system be based on this or that tech stack, put the Red button here and there and so on. So, instead of dozens and hundreds of programmers' teams we will need just one human software design AI operator. This is how it is going to be soon.

[OnigoroshiZero]

This will not age well.

I am laughing when I see people talk about how developers will not go away because to make software you need to understand the client and be able to think, assuming that AI (or the AGI that we will have within the next 12-16 months) will never be able to do it.
I've got some news for all these people. GPT-4 can already understand anything a human may need through natural language, and it is also better than most humans at it. Just taking a look at what it can already do with AutoGen should be enough to convince anyone with at least some experience, but people just want to live in denial about the current situation.

There will be no need for human developers within the next 2-3 years, because anyone will be able to use AGI agents to have them make anything they may need, but they will make it within a few hours if not minutes and for only a couple of dollars. They will also include any other kind of asset required (images, UI elements, sound, etc.) for the software.