> If writing the code is the easy part, why would I want someone else to write it?
Exactly my takeaway to current AI developments as well. I am also confused by corporate or management who seem to think they are immune to AI developments. If AI ever does get to the point where it can write flawless code, what exactly makes them think they will do any better in composing these tools than the developers who've been working with this technology for years? Their job security is hedged precisely IN THE FACT that we are limited by time and need managed teams of humans to create larger projects. If this limitation falls, I feel like their jobs would be the first on the chopping block, long before me as a developer. Competition from tech-savvy individuals would be massive overnight. Very weird horse to bet on unless you are part of a frontier AI company who do actually control the resources.
I don't think this will be an issue, given history. COBOL was developed so that someone higher up could use more human language to write software. (BASIC too? I don't know, I wasn't around for either).
More modern-day, low/no-code platforms are advertised as such... and yet, they don't replace software developers. (in fact, some projects my employer does is migrating away from low/no-code platforms in favor of code, because performance and other nonfunctionals are hidden away. We had a major outage as a result when traffic increased.)
Ultimately, this would lead to.a situation where only the customer-facing (if there are any) or "business-facing" (i.e. C-suite) roles remain. I'm not sure, I like that.
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Do you think any of them cares about long term? Regardless of AI, your head is always on a chopping block. You always grab that promo in front of you, even if it means you’ll be axed in two years by your own decisions.
I mean I understand that you want your business to not fall behind right now, sure. But I don't understand people in management who are audibly _excited_ about the prospect of these developments even behind closed doors. I guess some of them imagine they are the next Steve Jobs only held back by their dev teams, but most of them are in for a rude awakening lol. And I guess a lot are just grifting. The amount of psychotic B2B SaaS rambling on Twitter is already unbearable as is.
How does the saying go?
>Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
Offtopic but, the funny part about that statement is that the only place the socialist ever got the poor's support was in China during its civil war and then only because Mao was directly giving (bribing) them with land in exchange for their support. Everywhere else the main population of socialists were government bureaucrats. Ironically, all authoritarian ideologies (fascism too) happen this way, with low level government officials being the most zealous and the core supporters. The whole "revolution of the people" narrative is just propaganda, like your quote.