[guzfip]

> They put him in a cubicle where he wrote Visual Basic CRUDs on an 8-5 schedule. No weird deadlines, no sleeping under the desk. He called it his paid vacation.

That was all nice and good for a while, but the times are ending.

I suspect there will still be a human involved in the production of software, but it will be domain experts, not CRUd monkeys who picked up just enough domain knowledge to be dangerous.

[samus]

The really valuable CRUD monkeys are already domain experts as well. The threatened ones are junior developers whose output is barely better than AI slop.

[guzfip]

> The really valuable CRUD monkeys are already domain experts as well

Sure but that’s a minority I’d argue. There wouldn’t be such a volume of shitty business software otherwise.

I will be interested to see if there are any economic effects of ending one of the last well paid, low barrier to entry careers in which some level of meritocracy was permitted.

[samus]

Shitty business software is rather the result of changing and murky requirements, prioritization, and bad quality control.

AI tools can help good developers be more productive, but they won't magically make a mere domain expert able to produce good software.