Sure, an AI watches 30k hours of video games and is heralded, but when I watch 30k hours of video games, I need to “move out and make something” of myself.
In Graphic Design, technology removed a lot of specialists. Used to be you needed a type guy, a colour guy, an art director, and an illustrator for each and every project.
Now that’s all the same guy.
Same thing is going to happen to coders I think. Look around at your team, think of everything they are currently doing, then understand that soon these will all be your sole responsibility.
“replace” is, as always, oversimplified… the job of programming will likely change for sure. programming languages will be built around AI generation, and programming will become prompt creation that looks at the big picture rather than the minutiae of code: just like it did when we stopped coding in ASM and started coding in higher order languages, or scripting languages, etc
It’s not that I don’t think AI will replace jobs. It’s just that programming is so much more than just writing code.
An LLM, which is the best thing we have right now, doesn’t understand concepts. And most of my job is taking problems and figuring out the best solution given a whole massive heap of context. That’s not something an LLM will ever be able to do.
Until we have something like general AI, my job is safe.
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