Yup, and just imagine the industry of tools it will spawn? DevOps, Ops, SecOps consultants and ISVs having wet dreams about the ways they'll offer 20-30% cost savings!!
Don't worry, they'll be back after companies try every other solution and hand out hundreds of low-taxed golden parachutes to executives who made these terrible decisions.
There's a reason Gen Z are taking up the trades more than Millennials did. Pay is good and reliable.
This reminds me of Star Trek NG episode When the Bough Breaks (I think). This culture nearly dies out because they became stupidly reliant on the sophisticated tech, but the next gen can’t fix the tech bc no reason to learn— the tech would do it.
Short term? Absolutely. Some d-bag with a Business degree who has been overpromised on AI is going to decide they don't need ten programmers and can get by with one or two.
Need an example? Look at what just happened to the feds since January with tech bros came in.
I don't know, what I'm seeing these days are companies back tracking on AI because it didn't deliver on what it promised. You can't live on empty promises forever, it needs to bring money. But you're right there's always an overexcited ceo willing to screw their business for the next shiny thing.
As a consultant I'm calling it now that there's going to be a ton of vibe coded apps that need fixes or features that we're going to need to refactor in a few years. 😅
Coding "without coding" has been tried before, and it turned out someone still had to code. I'd be delighted if AI can handle some of my more unpleasant and tedious tasks but it simply can't.
Picture this: a 5K screen, four terminals, and an engineer not typing, but observing AI write thousands of lines of code.
It’s giving: “I used to build things. Now I supervise the algorithm building things badly.”
Welcome to vibe coding—aka, telling the AI, “build me a scalable backend for a fintech app,” and praying it doesn’t also invent a blockchain, a new currency, and accidentally launch an IPO.
We’ve gone from “learn to code” to “prompt and cross your fingers.”
MASTER:SI is coming. Modular libraries were released this past winter. Development is way ahead of schedule and producing incredible results. A year or two designs for Biomachina will be made available to the Council. This article links to some of the possibilities down the line. CODE ON!
Hilariously reductive, you could just talk to anyone who's skilled at their job and responsible with this tech instead of being like "oh no, these engineers that I'm much more clever than will reinvent the big evil crypto by accident! That's definitely possible and worth thinking about"
Even that's a bit simplistic. I haven't read the article but if you vibe code well and you know a bit of FE coding, you can use it to create decent a one-pager. But if you want to integrate an e-commerce site with the CRM application of the customer, you want to hire a decent backend engineer.
Anyone who’s taken over a repo with no readme or documentation and fixed all the spaghetti code is laughing at the future work. Can ai write a backend? Maybe. Can it maintain it?
That's exactly why it's outrage bait - many professionals who know exactly what they're doing have been using it for years now, but let's just strawman and imagine a fictional bad programmer to get angry at
(who would get fired in days in the real world anyway, it's irrelevant)
Talked to my college-age son about this. He said his peers felt like coding already had too many people & not enough jobs even before AI. This is why they’re all studying accounting.
Maybe tech products could follow the trend set by food products, and get labeled "organic" or "inorganic" depending on if they were coded by humans or not. Maybe warning labels could be required.
"CAUTION: This is product was created by AI. May contain hallucinations and/or ridiculous errors."
currently observing from the major incident management perspective to see if this creates even more job security for us than the theory that you don't need to bother with regression testing.
Yeah... no. That job of watching code get generated would quickly turn into fixing a huge volume of errors. It's helpful. It's not unemploying engineers. Tax code changes are hurting development jobs, not AI. AI might reduce staff slightly as efficiency goes up but there are always new projects.
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Except maybe bounty hunting tech bros.
There's a reason Gen Z are taking up the trades more than Millennials did. Pay is good and reliable.
Using another AI to verify the code quality? Do you understand the language they talk to each other?
People need to watch Star Trek.It saves lives.
Need an example? Look at what just happened to the feds since January with tech bros came in.
Cuts without any understanding.
Using AI, of course! But somewhat more cautiously.
It’s giving: “I used to build things. Now I supervise the algorithm building things badly.”
Now? You’re getting side-eyed by a chatbot that just spun up an app while hallucinating three APIs and inventing a new programming language.
We’ve gone from “learn to code” to “prompt and cross your fingers.”
it will never not pay to know code 😎
imo llms will eventually get that sophisticated to where they will be able to write AND maintain code, but they will always be LEARNING software
(who would get fired in days in the real world anyway, it's irrelevant)
apologies to the quality indies out there
https://youtu.be/m0b_D2JgZgY?si=FNTTVCLv-_3z9z-F
"CAUTION: This is product was created by AI. May contain hallucinations and/or ridiculous errors."