alt Hacker NewsWe’re in automation. The point of programming is not to do the same thing again.
The role of a developer (and most IT roles), at its core, is to make yourself obsolete, move on, rinse and repeat.
Feature / scope creep may have blindsided some.
I’m happy most programming is going away. I was capable but now I’m even more capable at creating solutions. The art will stay.
> The point of programming is not to do the same thing again.
That's called an abstraction, which AI is expressly not. If your work involves writing the same code over and over again, you're doing it wrong.
> I’m happy most programming is going away. I was capable but now I’m even more capable at creating solutions.
This describes management.
> The art will stay.
This describes actual engineering.