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Comment by mikert89

15 hours ago

Software engineering will get automated, all of the issues with the current models will get worked out in time. People can beg and wish that its not true, but it is. We have a few more good years left and then this career is over

I think this is a not insane prediction, but much like truck driving and radiology the timeline is likely not that short.

Waymo has been about to replace the need for human drivers for more than a decade and is just starting to get there in some places, but has had basically no impact on demand yet, and that is a task with much less skill expression.

So far there are mainly horrible "AI-coded" websites that look like they were produced by the Bootstrap framework in 2014. They use 100% CPU in Firefox despite having no useful functionality.

It is the Mc Donalds version of programming, except that Mc Donalds does not steal the food they serve.