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Royal
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Calling it now, AI seems like a threat to programmers because it "automates the work of programmers" but this isn't actually true. The nuance that gets glossed over is that AI automates the task of translating ideas to code. But it's only X% accurate. Without being able to rely on the underlying code programmers, if anything, become even more important. Imagine an inexperienced person trying to use AI to build a product and they hit an event bubbling issue, a caching issue, a race condition. All of these issues are governed by things that are invisible to most users and hard for experienced people to fully isolate. What does AI actually do? It makes programmers go way faster. It's more akin to the prop plane to jet age rather than something like farming to factories.
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Royal
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> But what about agents and recursive looping, Devin etc. Agents are like us fine tuning the loop to get continuous thrust. It is just going to allow programmers to go even further even faster because a lot of the challenges of programming at a higher skill level is figuring out how to translate requirements into code that can actually be maintained while being performant, oftentimes breaking the tasks down for junior engineers to handle something and then reviewing it. Agents just slot into the junior engineer position and free new juniors, and any programmer really, to focus on shipping value instead of monkeying with syntax. And this is the hardest part and the mindset shift. You have to go through a process of relearning how to approach problem solving with these new tools while falling back to solve problems the old way when they break down. Your work loop has changed. It's a good thing but feels odd and slow at first. TL;DR Your tools are getting better but it takes time to learn how to operate them
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xh3b4sd โ
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Not a single software engineer is getting replaced any time soon. And every single software engineer having used those productivity tools knows that. Writing code is maybe 20% of the job at max.
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