Comment by Kiro
2 days ago
> Everyone agrees AI can't do their job, so it ends up doing everyone else's.
In real life I haven't met a single programmer who doesn't think AI can do their job.
If someone would actually say that I would immediately think they have hubris and overestimate their skills.
We must live in different realities, because I have the direct opposite experience.
Perhaps we are defining "job" differently? AI can, with much coaching, _perhaps_[1], do some _aspects_ of a programmer's job. But not all of it, or even the most important parts of it.
[1] given that we have spent the past many decades pointing out that developer productivity is possibly impossible to measure, or at least very hard; given "done" vs "done done"; given the history of "rock star" developers creating messes behind them, the difference between short and long term thinking and the external imperceptability of that difference; given all of that, we haven't really had enough time to form a valid opinion on what AI can do, in the long run.
are you saying that all of the programmers you’ve met in real life have automated their work away and are coasting while waiting for their bosses to fire them…?
…if not, they’ve found developer work that ai can’t do yet, no?
That was not my point. Maybe we interpret "can't do their job" differently. That said, outside of HN I don't know anyone writing code by hand anymore except people that can't use it due to compliance or work on PLC stuff.
You mean theoretically in the future? Or right now?
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