Programmers are using AI, which streamlines their job a lot. Thousands of programmers are being laid off because of AI. Now I was a programmer and I would never just throw in AI code. But many do. So I think we are losing the need for bad programmers. Anyway my kids all program and they say lots of people just throw in AI code. So they are useless and will sooner or later lose their jobs.
Anyone can code, few can debug. And my experience so far with coding tools, is that using AI to help debug, can dig an even deeper hole, if you don’t know what it’s doing.
AI doesn’t know the data. I was a programmer for 44 years, 25 at my last employer when I retired Jan 2024. By April, they were asking me to come back. I retired again last month because I saw the work that was coming up.