{"id":3785,"date":"2024-04-15T07:39:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T07:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/?p=3785"},"modified":"2024-04-19T13:32:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T13:32:57","slug":"does-ai-make-software-developers-obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/does-ai-make-software-developers-obsolete\/","title":{"rendered":"Does AI make software developers obsolete?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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🤖\u00a0Some believe this will happen soon. Jensen Huang (NVidia) recently said that coding is not a viable career and at FTI Supernova former president Barak Obama stated: \u201cunless you are at the top 1% of coding, if you’re just doing regular stuff, AI is going to replace you pretty quick.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Their assumption seems that we will soon describe our business needs in human language. The AI will then create a working application by generating the necessary software. No software engineers needed. <\/span><\/p>\n

❌\u00a0This nonsense has to stop. It is not innocent. Our economy will be in deep trouble if we keep discouraging young people from becoming software engineers. <\/span><\/p>\n

🎬\u00a0A recent demo labelled as “AI Software Engineer” marked a new low in pushing this misconception. The demo video shows an AI system that picks up a random programming job from a website, downloads the code, analyses it, fixes the bugs, and takes the money. <\/span><\/p>\n

Except\u2026 it wasn\u2019t. I will put the video to the deep analysis by <\/span>Carl Brown<\/a> in the comments but here are the main points:\u00a0<\/span>
➡️\u00a0it didn\u2019t answer the job request; it did something else entirely\u00a0<\/span>
➡️\u00a0it unnecessarily created new, buggy source files that it then fixed (zero value)\u00a0<\/span>
➡️\u00a0it wrote bad code <\/span><\/p>\n

🤔\u00a0So ok, you say, that\u2019s painful, but surely the next version of ChatGPT will do this! <\/span><\/p>\n

🚫\u00a0No, it won\u2019t. Software development requires a broad set of skills, most importantly the ability to reason, which large language models cannot reliably do. It will not just be a matter of adding more training data or making the model larger. Reasoning is the holy grail of AI and has proven elusive so far. It will require nothing less than a major scientific breakthrough. <\/span><\/p>\n

🔧 Don\u2019t get me wrong, AI is helpful and for sure part of a professional software engineer\u2019s toolbox. It can help writing code snippets, debugging, documenting, etc. It will help, not replace. <\/span><\/p>\n

Also because on top of reasoning we need your passion, your problem solving, your curiosity, your understanding of user needs, your collaboration in a team and your brilliant mind. <\/span><\/p>\n

Learn to code, then use an AI assistant to speed up your work!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Join the discussion on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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