Comment by mulmen
2 days ago
I really don’t think training an agent on “your style” is the future. We’re more adaptable than the agents.
I think programming is a job people don’t need to do anymore and anyone who called themselves a software engineer is now a manager of agents. Jira is the interface. Define the requirements.
Writing your own code will still be a thing. We’ll even call those people hackers. But it will be a hobby.
> I think programming is a job people don’t need to do anymore and anyone who called themselves a software engineer is now a manager of agents. Jira is the interface. Define the requirements.
That Grand Canyon sized logical leap quoted ignores a vital concept: understanding.
To "define the requirements" sufficient enough for any given feature/defect/etc. requires a degree of formality not present in prose. This already exists and is in use presently:
0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_...
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_programming_l...
Unfortunately, management seems to be agreeing with you
I hope engineers have the sense to really set high prices when we're asked to fix the broken code that your "managers of agents" don't know how to fix
The open question is who is better at defining requirements for AI agents. Managers or engineers?
Ultimately it won't matter, because Managers will be the ones choosing who gets to stick around and they're of course going to choose themselves
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