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What are devs displaced by AI going to do in the future? Is there an actual plan? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Let's assume that in 10 years, AI has advanced absurdly, insanely fast, and is now capable of doing everything a Senior SWE can do. It can program in 15 different languages, 95% accuracy with almost no mistakes, can create entire applications in minutes, and no more engineers or SWEs are needed.... What will all the devs do? Do they just become homeless? Transition to medical field, nursing? Become tradespeople like plumbers, HVAC?

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (12 children)

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When did it ever not push out broken code?

[–] hex@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago (11 children)

In this hypothetical situation?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (10 children)

In this hypothetical, why would we create new languages? What benefit does that have for AI-gen code?

So either we're going to improve AI-gen to the point where we rely on it, or human devs are still important in which case new languages matter. The main exception here are languages specifically designed for AI, in which case error-rate would go down.

So either AI pushes out broken code and human devs are still important, or AI doesn't push out broken code and new languages aren't valuable.

[–] hex@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think both can happen at the same time. There's a lot of fkn nerds out there. (I'm a software developer myself)

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