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Thoughts?
Tbh, the first comment there pretty much sums up what I've been thinking:
Some guys might face the very real possibility of losing their jobs, but I really wouldn't be surprised if the biggest result of those AI chatbots becoming so big and accessible would be the explosion of productivity of a single programmer, with even small companies now capable of doing stuff just a few select giants would've been able to do just a few years ago.
Tbh, the first comment there pretty much sums up what I've been thinking:
Sigh. We went through this already when compilers were first invented.
People said we’d need far less programmers because managers can now read and write programs in an English-like syntax and be more productive than programmers writing in assembly. Programmers could be 10-50x more productive writing in a high level language than writing in assembly. Therefore we’d need 10-50x less programmers.
That. Did. Not. Happen. People merely started building and maintaining more complex projects. From Pong to Grand Theft Auto 5. Why would yet another “10x booster” (gpt is honestly more like a 1-10% booster) suddenly change everything?
The history of the field is filled with tools that have 10-50X’d our productivity. From machine language to assembly, to COBOL, to Java, python etc… To git, to AWS, Azure… I think you get the point already. Every new tool was promised to reduce demand for software development as a profession. Instead the demand for software increased and therefore the demand for software *developers*. Because software becomes increasingly more powerful and useful.
Some guys might face the very real possibility of losing their jobs, but I really wouldn't be surprised if the biggest result of those AI chatbots becoming so big and accessible would be the explosion of productivity of a single programmer, with even small companies now capable of doing stuff just a few select giants would've been able to do just a few years ago.