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Comment by oneeyedpigeon

3 years ago

> my programming skills will likely be massively devalued

I see this in the context of the drawing vs. art analogy. Yes, your typing and maybe syntax skills will be devalued, but your higher level, creative programming skills are probably safe for a good long time yet.

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sebzim4500  3 years ago

Depends what you mean by 'good long time'. I think at this point it's worth acting under the assumption that programming will not be a well compensated career in 5-10 years, and either be prepared to switch to something else or try to make a lot of money in the near term.

Also, if I'm wrong then I get to be pleasantly surprised.

  • morby  3 years ago

    AI has yet to completely replace people in any industry. I fail to see how it would replace an industry that creates massive, complicated code bases in 10 years. Let alone 5. All roads seem to point to AI assisted work. Programmers will move “higher level”. That doesn’t mean they become poorly compensated.

ZephyrBlu  3 years ago

I'm sure there will be some overlap, but prompting is sufficiently different from programming that I think a lot of skills will not translate.

  • CuriouslyC  3 years ago

    They will, because you need to know to prompt for (as an example) "a real-time data-tracking and reporting application backed by a column database with logical replication fed by a task queue, having an isomorphic client cached across multiple regions via a CDN."

    Without the engineering know-how, your "write me an app that displays data from this source in a dashboard" prompt might work, but it won't be robust and when it doesn't work you won't be able to figure out why.

    • fipar  3 years ago

      Yeah, forget responding to prompts, I want to see A”I” respond to pages to troubleshoot its prompt-generated software.

      “The machine stops” will seem optimistic in hindsight!

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