Comment by daemon_9009
4 days ago
compare this to Electronic engineering, we are not making chips by hand, It is impossible to squeeze too many transistors in such a small space, we just create the circuit designs. I believe writing the code is heading in the same direction as well, you don't write too much code now, but you have to design the architecture and connect things. But it does not mean that you don't need to understand the code, now of all the times people who understand code are more important. Many below par devs will loose jobs for sure.
Exactly. Chips are incredibly expensive and extremely complex—containing billions of transistors and you can't realistically build them at home. Memory is a good example: it keeps growing in both capacity and cost.
The same thing will happen to software. Eventually, the sheer volume and diversity of code will exceed human comprehension and only massive data centers will be able to process it. We'll reach the point where software complexity and programmer capabilities hit an economically practical limit. The next-gen Moore's Law for AI?
Today, chips are designed largely through automated processes and software is increasingly being created the same way. The main difference is the timescale: software evolves billions of times faster than hardware.