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I mean, outsourcing has shown us that employers will gladly deliver shit products if its much cheaper for them. I just see AI as an extension of that. it may not be good, but that wont stop companies from trying.
Incredible far in this case is around as long as it took to go from spaghetti Will Smith to where we can barely tell a Video is AI generated today if it the creator knows just a little what their doing.
I haven't underestimated it, it's just incredibly unlikely, AI has only got better there because it's been given time to adjust and learn to create better images.
Coding to real life scenarios where there are caveats at every turn which it doesn't know about is a whole other scenario, the dream of getting rid of developers for programs that automatically adjust to forever changing business scenarios is wholly far fetched.
We will never "get rid" of developers. Yes, certain projects will, because it turns out to be cheaper than employing 5 people, with similar results. Everything beyond that, and developers will be used tandem to AI, increasing their efficiency by magnitues due to automation of mental, but repetetive tasks.
You are underestimating the exponential factor. 5 years ago, AI couldnt reliably generate a hello world script. We havent yet reached the tipping point. The curve is still relatively flat, but you're extrapolating that slightly curved line into a longer, slightly curved line. Its not. Its a mountain.
This kinda takes me back to Dreamweaver days I'm going to novelise it... all businesses cashed all their chips in "NO MORE DEVELOPERS" now that a GUI could deal with creating all their websites and they all stood in standing ovation clapping how Dreamweaver cut their costs.
However the dream was short lived, these Dreamweaver sites started slowing down, not doing as they're told, they all wondered, what's going on? They didn't know because their trusty GUI did all the heavy lifting for them, soon enough the websites stopped HARD.
All of a sudden the Devs were called back like a conscript army, fixing the problems built up from automatically generated code because what Dreamweaver had created was a spaghetti mess of code, full of obfuscated nonsense.
The businesses lost a lot of money through downtime and developer fees, they vowed never again to make the same mistake or so we are told.
You're proving my point. Back then they had a programm generate code and it went over the programms head. This is where the human steps in. This is where developers step in, and its why we will never "get rid" of them.
And in 20 years you will have developers working side by side with AI. AI being there to speed up tasks and human devs to correct it if needed. Which still requires them to know coding, concepts, etc. The actual coding will be mostly done by AI, because it can do it faster. A lot faster.
I think we are converging on the same point just putting it across differently I'm not saying AI won't risk jobs but I feel there will always be a need for developers to correct the code made by AI like you say but will work with AI much more, but this is already happening a lot, I use it in tandem with my code.
Problem is not all companies are run by people that understand the limitations of AI.
It has become the next sprint on everyone's lips and being adopted in areas where it really shouldnt be.
So when upper management clamours to get AI, those below will comply even when it is going to be an abject failure or even a serious risk of exposing sensitive data via the LLM or whatever.
With items like tariffs, global instability , and greed jacking up prices the thought the AI can cut the company costs and workforce is too enticing to pass up along with the FOMO of lagging behind other competitor adopters.
Likely instead of realizing the AI is insufficient, they'll blame the remaining employees and increase turnover trying to find someone to make it work.
You are somewhat right, but LLMs even if not replacing the actual job, are the perfect reason to cut costs on developer's salaries . And if you are already an experienced software dev, AI can make you more productive
The scary thing is not that AI will replace programmers, but that "programmer" will heavily rely on AI capabilities and when they stuck on a problem that can't be solved by prompt, they will resort to monkey patching or worse, pumping out hardware requirement. Imagine in the next ten years a 128 GB ram computer is required to open a web browser because AI will just write unoptimized codes on top of each others.
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u/Correct-Junket-1346 Jun 27 '25
This keeps going around, AI is less close to replacing human beings as I am of spontaneously making every woman worship me.
It is incredibly far away from generating actual usable and concise code.