alt Hacker NewsI am (still) not a proponent for AI, however I hope AI might do to programming what the camera did to painting, and I hope that will be a good thing.
What we understand as painting today is very different then what painting meant pre-camera. Now it is mostly a leisure activity and creative outlet. Where back in the day it was a serious occupation for capturing reality, and therefore creativity was taking second stage.
I hope that coding will go that way and even though I might lose my current occupation. I feel like that might be what is needed to get out of the stagnation of current day software development (compared to early computer history). Take the money out of coding, bring the creativity in, take out the investors and keep the enthusiasts. I think that might be good for the activity that we call programming.
Also "software engineering" involves vastly more then programming or coding, so I doubt software engineering will disappear.
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If software becomes dramatically cheaper to produce, that may just give investors even more software to invest in
Yes, Silicon Valley became Wall Street and that basically ruined it completely. Soon as the term brogrammer was coined it was over.
I think that is quite likely but it is going to be a painful transition. Especially for the people who were only attracted to the profession for the money.