[phamilton4]

Why is it that the opinion of a "digital" Reporter and Management Professor are peddled as absolute truths? I'm sure they are very intelligent people, but every time someone who hasn't spent any time writing software tells me what they think this or that will do I have to take it with a grain of salt.

There is so much more to software development than just spitting out code.

I feel like the same people crying wolf about AI/ChatGPT are the same ones who would push the idea of lines of code a day = productivity. I'm sure it will displace some people in tech, no doubt. But maintaining code, coming up with requirements, devops/ci/cd, testing, support, etc are still a very necessary thing whether or not some silly service generated your code for you or not.

I remember when I graduated college my first employer was eager to use a low/no-code tool to produce applications. Everyone there claimed it was the future of "programming" and software development. Drag and drop coding would make it so the business analysts could "write code". How did that turn out?

I am skeptical of those who claim "IT'S OVER!!!" when they do not seem to understand the whole picture of writing software. I'll probably eat crow in 10 years, but for now I will just continue on enjoying "coding". When the day comes that AI replaces my job, I'll learn something else. Writing software has done nothing but helped my ability to learn something quickly.