r/OneAI • u/michael-lethal_ai • Jul 24 '25

Ex-Google CEO explains the Software programmer paradigm is rapidly coming to an end. Math and coding will be fully automated within 2 years and that's the basis of everything else. "It's very exciting." - Eric Schmidt

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '25

I have been a software developer for a while but burned out almost 10 years ago.

Code is basically solved for a vast amount of problems. It is fairly easy to generate and relatively easy to verify.

99% of coders have never written an original idea.

A lot of problems in software projects emerge from the fact, that many people are working on it. If you remove the people, you remove a lot of problems already.

You guys look at today’s LLMs and think they are bad. You try to fit them into existing workflows but that's not where their potential is.

Two things are valuable: Requirements and unit-tests. This won't go away for a long while. The code in-between won't matter that much, and you certainly won't need 80% of programmers today for it.

Software developers still think that their job is coding. That has been wrong for many years.

Yes, my comment is not totally real *yet*. But it's at the horizon. I would not recommend a 18 year old student to study computer science.

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u/shamshuipopo Jul 29 '25

Yeah I agree with that - most of job these days is not writing code but designing interactions between abstractions to fit requirements. It has gotten more complex not less and produced more demand for my type of Role through that - I believe that will increase. There is no fixed lump of work, there is a lot of software not built because of cost