[gonzo41]

All this does is change how you go about getting computers to work for you. Someone off the street still needs to know how to express themselves correctly to get a result that's not crap. And they don't know what they don't know. So this thread will be filled with people freaking out about the ends of their jobs. When really it just changes how their jobs work.

The nailgun didn't retire carpenters. They just got more productive.

[RGamma]

Pre-industrialisation: 80% of population are farmers

Post-industrialisation: <1% of population are farmers

There's going to be a big squeeze in the field (pun not intended).

[gonzo41]

This will destroy the boiler plate industry.

So bye javascript, it's not been nice.

What will stay, is human level systems engineering, Running things, designing etc. And for a very long time, you're going to have to check AI's work.

Anyway, I don't think it'll be nuclear bomb devastating to this industry, but it should give us all pause and make sure we get skills to compliment coding.

[sublinear]

> So bye javascript, it's not been nice.

I don't think frontend development is any less complex than systems engineering.

> What will stay, is human level systems engineering, Running things, designing etc

In fact I think it might be the other way around.

I'd expect systems to be slower to change and subject to their own hard dependencies on consistency. That makes them easier for a language model to imitate.

I'd expect frontend dev to move faster and subject to a never ending churn of non-technical wants from sales and marketing. The huge amount of boilerplate is an attempt to handle the few patterns that exist in an otherwise very sparse space where one design is miles away from another and much glue is required to accomplish the task. Messiness here is not due to inherent complexity, but apparent complexity since things are never allowed to converge onto something more coherent.