What Happens to the Developers When AI Can Code?

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jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
They become the janitors of the stuff cobbled together by AI. Generated code has existed for a long time. Generating code from scratch is not what software do. Understanding the business context and the whole code base is. There will certainly be lots of things that developers will do faster with AI, meaning less developers might be needed in the long term. But it’s more likely that developers will just be expected to develop faster and ship more things.

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- vinnymac@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  more likely that developers will just be
  
  Developers already are, at least of the several hundreds of devs in my circle of the tech industry.
  
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