Comment by dimitri-vs
6 hours ago
Is spending 4 years of your life on education that will likely only be 10-20% applicable to your job any less bizarre? It's just another hoop employers want to see you capable of jumping.
If you ignore the syntax programming is just writing detailed instructions. Just because AI is able to translate English to code doesn't mean the 100s of decisions that need to be made go away. Someone still needs to write very detailed instructions even if they are in English and it sure isn't going to be the people sitting in meetings all day.
And let's pretend that I can now be 10x more productive with AI. Great, now I can ship 10x more features in the same timeframe and nothing changes - the development backlog is literally infinite. There are always more features or bugs to work on.
> Just because AI is able to translate English to code doesn't mean the 100s of decisions that need to be made go away. Someone still needs to write very detailed instructions even if they are in English and it sure isn't going to be the people sitting in meetings all day.
What makes you think it will be you? The machines seem increasingly capable of converting English into different English, and if we take it as a given that they can convert English into code.. what are you there for? The people sitting in meetings might as well talk to the machine, to the extent they're willing to talk to you.
To be clear, the professional "meeting participants" are as much on the chopping block as we are, although that's not commonly pointed out.