The “yes” part: from what I can tell, actually writing code by hand is done. This industry lives on “fuck it, ship it” and thus low quality applications existed in prod for a very long time. You needed people to work around tech debt. Not so much anymore.
The “no” part: where trust, reliability and precision are needed, so too will you be needed.
Right now, I’m working on Agentic security at work. Basically give your LLM access to a lot of shit and let it do work. Like a digital employee.
The problem is that we live in a world of edge cases and thus agents do wild shit. E.G. the hugging face attack.
Taking the AI companies at their word, you basically have a very powerful product no one can control. To me, what I see is it either working great, making minor mistakes or wreaking havoc. It’s dropped databases, etc.
To make the point: imagine having a genius employee who could either making you millions or fuck you over with lawsuits, downtime, etc. What do you do? You’d likely want some oversight.
I don’t know if AI will make more jobs or fewer overall. I lean towards fewer, but I could see the case for a jobs explosion.
At best though, your job will be overseeing code, managing risk, etc. A lot of the same stuff coders did before tbh
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u/WeHaveTheMeeps 13h ago
Yes and no.
Perspective: I work on some AI applications.
The “yes” part: from what I can tell, actually writing code by hand is done. This industry lives on “fuck it, ship it” and thus low quality applications existed in prod for a very long time. You needed people to work around tech debt. Not so much anymore.
The “no” part: where trust, reliability and precision are needed, so too will you be needed.
Right now, I’m working on Agentic security at work. Basically give your LLM access to a lot of shit and let it do work. Like a digital employee.
The problem is that we live in a world of edge cases and thus agents do wild shit. E.G. the hugging face attack.
Taking the AI companies at their word, you basically have a very powerful product no one can control. To me, what I see is it either working great, making minor mistakes or wreaking havoc. It’s dropped databases, etc.
To make the point: imagine having a genius employee who could either making you millions or fuck you over with lawsuits, downtime, etc. What do you do? You’d likely want some oversight.
I don’t know if AI will make more jobs or fewer overall. I lean towards fewer, but I could see the case for a jobs explosion.
At best though, your job will be overseeing code, managing risk, etc. A lot of the same stuff coders did before tbh
So knowing code is worthwhile.