[skohan]

I agree. I think we are getting close to where a machine can do "programming" but it will be a while before a machine can do "software engineering".

I.e. maybe you will be able to use AI to solve a problem, like "write a lambda to to accept JSON in this format and put it in a database with this scema", or even potentially "optimize this function to run as fast as possible on a multi-core processor", but it seems we're quite far from something like "write an application with a GUI that looks like this which has the following functions".

[karmakaze]

What I think will happen is changing of software development roles. They'll be split into things AI/ML can do and things humans will continue to do (using copilots). And the work that humans do will be constrained in ways to interface with the machine, as well as take the output from machines and complete integrations. We might even use programming languages that the machine handles better. So software development has humans producing/validating that then gets used by machines, and that output being used for final integration/validation. With these new formalized structures, AI [that ship has sailed] will train on it and replace more of the stack.