The Rise of the AI Script Kiddie

[erminpour]

Will the rise of AI make all future developers Script Kiddies? Technical Books are in decline and everyone now boasts about a 30k line code-base they don't understand. Will real expertise be in-demand in the future? What are the implications for the Software Engineering profession and society at large?

[throwfaraway135]

There is a good chance Software Engineering will disappear similar to lamplighters, ice cutters and the others which names we don't even remember. Is this good or bad? Who knows, at least till now technology brought better living standards for almost all of us.

[hootz]

If you don't understand some basic low level programming, you will struggle to make non-trivial performant code with higher level languages.

If you don't understand how to make vanilla web pages, you will struggle to make non-trivial good web applications with frameworks.

If you don't understand how to code, you will struggle to make non-trivial good software with AI.

All of these phrases are still true to this day. If you don't understand the things behind the abstractions you are using, you will always be limited in how fast/good your results will be. Yes, your React web page may work even though you wouldn't know how to make the same thing without React, but it probably sucks very hard.