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Ask HN: What type of software development won’t AI replace? Or at least later on

4 points by pipeline_peak ↗ HN
It’s given that app development is going to go first, much of it has already been done away not by Ai but low code frameworks.

I have a feeling fundamental software will take a long time. Browser engines, game engines, compilers, os kernels.

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dtagames
Just putting together a new thing from scratch takes people and probably will for a long time. Where I work, for example, I was charged with creating the company's public website with a 1st and 3rd party trading market for in-game items, as well as a second internal dashboard site for employees.

Now, that's not a prompt you can give to an AI. Too many moving parts, and too many steps to get to the finish line. I use Copilot and love it, but it's not going to write my apps, make decisions that I have to make (and defend), nor keep up with constant changes from designers and from the backend API. I'm confident I'll be doing that for the foreseeable future.