[ChiMan]

It also seems possible that clever, young outsiders will, by creatively employing AI, displace senior devs. Because unlike with law and accounting, novices in software development can generate a lot of their own reps at low cost (mostly just their time, which will be cheap compared to senior devs).

Another possibility could be using junior devs (with AI) to come up with enormous numbers of fresh ideas and minimally working programs, with the promising ones then worked on with senior devs.

Most fundamentally, because AI lowers the cost of testing out ideas and potential software products, it seems like a tool to test notions of what you should build or continue to offer customers in the first place.

[cyanydeez]

The real threat is SPAM. No matter how great you are at spotting diamonds in the rough, if the rough expands exponentially (unlike the singularity), the real trouble is going to be about how to actually evaluate whether or not whatever is presented is a solid code, or three AIs in a trench coat.

We already see it overwhelming HR systems, but once all this code gets generated, how is anyone going to know, without being extremely competent, that these vibe coded things are sufficient demonstration of future value.

Or worse, how are you going to even find these new age AI wunderkind, when it used to be hard to polish up a project and now anyone can spit shine their project.