Amazon's LEAKED Conversation Reveals Stunning Truth About The Future Of Software Engineering

I think Jensen Huang has it backwards. We (and our kids) may not need to actually code in the future, but learning how to code changes the way you think in fundamental ways. It's like saying you don't need to learn how to do multiplication tables because we have calculators. Learning math basics changes the way you think.

A lot of people forget what Huang's role is. A public company's CEO has one job: to increase the company's profits. That's it. That means he will sell you the best picture of the future he thinks he can without lying.

In response to your thumbnail, the end of software engineers: Wouldn't this be the rise of the software engineer and end of the programmer?

Such a management thing to say, that coding is not a skill. Management has been trying for decades to automate away programmers, they think they've finally hit the jackpot with AI. Something makes me think it'll not be as rosy as they think it will be.

We are now 18 months into ai taking over software development jobs in 6 months.

One thing I've learned over many decades is that hardware companies don't understand software, so I wouldn't listen to them talking about software.

"Nobody has to program" read as "im so tired of paying 280k a year for some nerd to hold my money hostage"

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I'm an enterprise level web developer - I use AI every day and pair program with GPT. It's like having a team of engineers who speak english but they can never keep the big context. I cannot trust the output, the code NEVER comes out correct in a single shot, it's a conversation, but it still lets me do things I wouldn't even have attempted in the past. I can see exactly what they are saying here. The code generated is only going to improve...

Trust me, I wish AI could do my job, but it can't. It sucks at programming even worse than people do, and it'll keep sucking at it for quite some time. Even when it does get better it'll still need a person to prompt it correctly so it can output good results—you know, like a programmer. Executives and CEOs know nothing of the low-level technical challenges we face every day. They are talking out of their ass. Also, if AI could replace a software engineer, I don't see why it couldn't replace a CEO who's far more expensive despite having a less specialized role.