Prompt engineering will be a required skillset.
Software code will be written by bots. If you're a coder today, you better have something unique to offer.
In 10-15 years, some software based upon models will go the way of the dodo bird
Google has already lost search and will struggle to be relevant in the next 3-5 years.
Count on Good Ole Laz to confront the tough questions, no?
Software is already being written by a bot and software engineers and technicians just clean up the code.
That software still has to be tested and examined to make sure there are no vulnerabilities in the code. Plus a lot of software deals with communicating with legacy systems, that have "quirks" that cannot simply be explained to an AI-based code generator.
I disagree. We have had "prompt engineering" in one form or another since computers started using non-machine language for code, such as Fortran, Cobol, C, SQL, Java, etc.
All of these "high level" programming languages are translated into machine code which a target computer can run, by the computer itself.
And in the case of Java, machine language can be generated on the fly while a program is running to optimize its performance.
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Forget about the underlying IT or AI technology that powers Google today, Google has the EYEBALLS and the NETWORK to power its future. And that's far and way what really matters. It can quickly add whatever AI tools it can add to awesome biz model.
Why was Musk willing to buy Twitter at an insanely high price? It's because replicating the existing network of companies, people, and relationships is extremely hard to build from scratch.
So I would not short Microsoft, X, Google, Apple, Facebook or TikTok. They will continue to be network giants. And software guys like IBM will steadily lose their global clout.
Ha! Look at the network Laz has built on FR. 250 comments and counting... No AI required, just a guy networked to a lot of smart people.