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by anoy8888 1173 days ago
Outsourcing always has a lot challenges. AI is a completely different beast.
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No matter how many frameworks, programming languages, the cloud, tools we have invented demand for programmers has stayed high.

LLM is another tool. Until it can talk to a stakeholders and build something it can be accountable for to a high standard that actually solves the problem and does well at the 1000 or so factors that make good software. I don’t worry about it right now.

AI is a threat to programmers precisely when it is a threat to civilisation. It may change the job substantially, but change is normal, so did the www, mobile, VC, cloud, Javascript explosion, functional programming and so on.

It also has a lot of challenges and needs quality control, automated quality control even.