[AnotherUnixGeek]

In five years, most of the new code on the planet will be written by LLMs. There will be few developers - instead we’ll have solution engineers and product managers who specialize in composing prompts. And in 10 years, we won’t even need the solution engineers and product managers. Software development as a human occupation is swiftly going the way of the horse and buggy.

[Dr. Sivana]

Software development as a human occupation is swiftly going the way of the horse and buggy.

I may be proven wrong, but I believe the ceiling may be lower than that for many applications.

[Dr. Sivana]

Software development as a human occupation is swiftly going the way of the horse and buggy.

At very least, the User Interface is as much art as science, and will be done better by actual people than an AI that will just look at what went before.

[Bobbyvotes]

While Microsoft still sending updates for bugs in their windows OS around since 1995 version Windows 95.

[stylin19a]

probably except for cobol...

[discostu]

Nah. Too much of coding is error handling. You can’t trust users, or networks. AI can give you the basic run through, maybe, if it doesn’t accidentally use an API that doesn’t exist, but that’s only 10%. And AI can’t wrap itself around all the exception.