People fear AI will replace us.
Calm down. Nothing has done more for the future job security of software developers, than AI generating unmaintainable code.
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To quote Professor Messer on YT, "AI is all A and hardly any I."
I am not concerned for my job right now and my position is one that could easily be replaced.
We have delivery and rental invoices that need to be applied and the automated system uses absolutely no logic whatsoever beyond that we teach 8 year olds.
When AI can apply dozens of invoices, fully understand splitting payments and use logic to apply with no payment details, then my job is threatened.
@randahl that's actually the racket.
You may not remember Ballmer's, "Developers, developers, developers" push that accelerated the Microsoft code base.
This is much the same.
Unmanageable code creation while #ai gets better and young developers get worse. And so who you gonna call?
The young manager will say, "Agent ai! Agent ai! Agent ai!" Because that is all s/he has been hearing.
And it gets baked into code bases.
I see a structural issue: bug fixers are experienced coders with deep application knowledge. Adding AI increases review and bug-fixing work, but AI vibe coders can't handle this alone. Finding full-stack developers with wide experience is challenging and costly. Additionally, creators spend more on debugging and rewriting before hitting the panic button. AI is becoming an unwanted and costly operation in many diciplines of IT
@randahl Given that it seems my coworkers have lost the knowedge of how to replace a toilet-paper roll in shared facilities these last few weeks, that future had better come soon or we are real in trouble!