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by lizmat 2695 days ago
Simple minded developers are cheap. And in time, easily replaceable by moderately intelligent AI.
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sethammons 2695 days ago
The crowing achievements of AI that interact with people are Alexa et al. Alexa can't even tell me what the newest releases are for movies.

When we can talk to an AI and describe something novel and it can interpret that, then I'll start to worry about software development jobs being lost to AI.

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pjmlp 2695 days ago
What about being lost to low wages countries, with better wage countries keeping the roles of project management and architecture?
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sethammons 2695 days ago
Didn't that scare happen a while ago with everyone worried about India taking all the software jobs? Didn't really happen. Could happen again, sure. I don't think more advanced AI or more simple programming languages will be a large factor in that.
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pjmlp 2695 days ago
I can tell you that the trend to offshore is still pretty ongoing in full speed.

Naturally those developers are also entitled to have jobs, the question is how it is actually done in practice.

Sadly a large majority are sweetshops.

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