State of the art AI can indeed code better than most programmers. I can get weeks of work done in a day with $100. I’ve been programming in multiple areas for 30 years.
I’m not saying that a noob can ask an AI to build Google and it will be done; But you’d better believe that an experienced programmer using AI will deliver weeks of high-quality work in a single day.
In this scenario, people with no experience are simply dead in the water. Things that took an experienced team months to build can now be done by a single guy in a few days, and there’s no way that won’t mess with employment.
If I was a young person I would be getting as far from software development as possible. Coding as a job is basically obsolete, people like you will just take time to accept it.
No, it won’t. Programming was and still is a professional job. If somehow corporations are able to throw resources at it to make this profession obsolete, this will be one of the last jobs which get replaced by machines. Hundreds of other jobs would be replaced before it. Corporations would have all the money with nothing to spend on.
If there isn’t a revolution to overthrow this “infinite growth” model now, there will be. It’s either the end of corporations, or humanity.
Even though we live in an utopia, burning all that energy to program isn’t sustainable on this earth. It’s a dead end for this so-called AI.
How can you see what’s going on and say this? Did you read the article?
Have you heard of Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, etc? Where is the equivalent to those tools for those other jobs that will be replaced first?
After plain text, code is probably the biggest share of training data. Github alone hosts billions of lines of open source code. Where is the same type of data for those other jobs?
“AI can code better than most humans.”
They actually mean: After burning millions of tokens and using up the energy of multiple households (for a year) it can code better than an intern.
State of the art AI can indeed code better than most programmers. I can get weeks of work done in a day with $100. I’ve been programming in multiple areas for 30 years.
I’m not saying that a noob can ask an AI to build Google and it will be done; But you’d better believe that an experienced programmer using AI will deliver weeks of high-quality work in a single day.
In this scenario, people with no experience are simply dead in the water. Things that took an experienced team months to build can now be done by a single guy in a few days, and there’s no way that won’t mess with employment.
If I was a young person I would be getting as far from software development as possible. Coding as a job is basically obsolete, people like you will just take time to accept it.
No, it won’t. Programming was and still is a professional job. If somehow corporations are able to throw resources at it to make this profession obsolete, this will be one of the last jobs which get replaced by machines. Hundreds of other jobs would be replaced before it. Corporations would have all the money with nothing to spend on.
If there isn’t a revolution to overthrow this “infinite growth” model now, there will be. It’s either the end of corporations, or humanity.
Even though we live in an utopia, burning all that energy to program isn’t sustainable on this earth. It’s a dead end for this so-called AI.
How can you see what’s going on and say this? Did you read the article?
Have you heard of Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, etc? Where is the equivalent to those tools for those other jobs that will be replaced first?
After plain text, code is probably the biggest share of training data. Github alone hosts billions of lines of open source code. Where is the same type of data for those other jobs?