The Future of Coding

[pixboi]

Calculators didn't make mathematicians obsolete, it only made simple arithmetics obsolete.

[hatter]

People who are scared of AI taking over programming have never actually studied AI or programming.

[Azamat]

Everybody can write, but not everybody can write books.

[AM]

For coders to be disappeared, customers have to say **EXACTLY** what they want to AI.
So don't worry guys
We will survive

[Brandon-lbiq]

It doesn’t matter how fast coding can be done. I am in a class that started with 24 people. There’s 9 of us left, and we just started intro to database systems. This profession will always require certain people with an actual desire to do the dang thing

[kaotiskhund]

This AI fever I am sick off. I feel like it 's only purpose it to deprecate the previous sources. Let me explain: Books got obsolete mostly in the field though there are still books published. StackOverflow has millions of questions answered and updated. AI can explain almost obsolete or deprecated libraries while things are ever changing. Corporations are hyped with FOMO in this AI thing and they enforce their stuff to use it without even understanding its short falls and problems or in which field is really applying in practise.
It is just capitalism in its core, throw it all over the world and hey, we are on a new technology era.
I don't say learning or getting help to code from a book or stackoverflow is better but in the same way AI is not either.
In conclusion, we are not gonna use a "new set of tools", we are just going to add this one for now in our current set and tinker around it as well as we do with the rest of our tools.
In a way we are blacksmiths. You just do not go and tell them which tools to use for better swords or something because you are hyped about it and you think it's going to solve the underlying problems.
Full disclosure: if you let all your developers go and replace them with AI, I give it 1-3 years that the whole corporate infrastructure will just stop working at all.
my opinion, obviously :)

[viniciusmachado]

I have been hearing this BS that programming will be obsolete in the near future for 15 years.

[JamesJansson]

"Everyone will be a coder" is what people were saying when "High level languages" came along. You know, like C++. AI tools won't level the playing field. It will make ok programmers pretty good.

[speedyx]

As an actual programmer and person who has worked in the IT for years: this is bullshit. We already had similar “revolutions”, data-entry folks were supposed to go away because everyone will be able to do it, database guys were supposed to go away because everyone will be able to do it, webdevs and all frontend devs were supposed to go away because it’ll be so easy do to this and here we are with all those jobs still needed and paid reasonably well.
The truth is most people are just technologically illiterate and they will be because they don’t care and they don’t need to. There won’t be “1 bilion programmers” just as there aren’t 1 billion plumbers even tho you can look everything you need up on the internet since the 90s

[usemayonaise]

Understanding data flow, architecting things and understanding customer requirements is what software engineering has been about since its inception

[makhosi]

You know it's BS when someone promises that all your problems are going to disappear 😅

[valberm]

As a seasoned programmer, the only thing I can tell you is: have fun debugging your AI-made programs.

[shapelessed]

There won't be billions of programmers.
And I can personally tell you that.

[madankd]

i think coding is accessible like writing an article, but only a few master the art

[_jovian]

Saw a good meme for this, "For AI to replace software engineers, project managers would have to accurately describe what they want.... don't worry, we're safe."

[miclu_x]

Tell me you've never ever worked on a programming project bigger than a calculator without telling me.

[tehseensajjad]

how to reveal yourself as an "AI enthusiast" AKA "import tensorflow as tf" enthusiast

[hanntonn]

Even with AI, someone who doesn't understand complex algorithms still won't understand them. AI helps one learn faster, but it can't engineer complex code for you.

[capacitor]

Everyone has a camera on their phones; not everyone is a photographer.

[df]

Ai saves you the embarrassment of getting roasted for not referencing a thread in Reddit or asking an already answered question in stack overflow. It’s like having a personal assistant that doesn’t mind that you have asked the same question ten times. Ai will explain it over and over in whatever way you want it to. That’s valuable.