Become a senior software engineer so that you have enough skills to use the AI to generate mostly functioning code and manually fix what it doesn't get correct?
Writing prompts to an AI to generate anything but trivial (CRUD?) code will become like writing design specifications. Domain knowledge is going to become increasingly more critical.
Programming hasn't been a thing for about 60 years now, since they figured out how to make computers program themselves.
I have somewhere a report from an engineer at GE in the 1950s, about how programming was about to become obsolete with the advent of FORTRAN.
He explained that the FORTRAN compiler would allow engineers to enter (slightly modified) equations directly into the computer and bypass the clerical tasks of specifying machine instructions, assigning addresses for code and storage and suchlike.
While many people were skeptical that computer-generated code could be as efficient as hand-written, his belief was that eliminating the bottleneck of programming a problem would increase utilization of the computer and provide a net win.
Insist that 'AI will never create real software' and hold underground live-coding demos inside faraday cages while jacked up on 4loko. Scene falls into disarray when '0xDEADBEEF', the star of this edgy new entertainment genre, turns out to be running a lightweight LLM on a local TPU.
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[ 1.5 ms ] story [ 32.6 ms ] threadI have somewhere a report from an engineer at GE in the 1950s, about how programming was about to become obsolete with the advent of FORTRAN.
He explained that the FORTRAN compiler would allow engineers to enter (slightly modified) equations directly into the computer and bypass the clerical tasks of specifying machine instructions, assigning addresses for code and storage and suchlike.
While many people were skeptical that computer-generated code could be as efficient as hand-written, his belief was that eliminating the bottleneck of programming a problem would increase utilization of the computer and provide a net win.
Anyway, history proved him right.
In 2000, I didn’t pursue going into tech because all of the jobs were going to India.
I told myself at the time, well they’ll never be able to get rid of writers, so why not study writing! Hah so glad to be wrong now.
https://xkcd.com/810/