I had to rephrase the question “Will AI take ALL programmer jobs” into this one because it makes sense. If it’s possible, what types of software developer jobs will be automated by AI or is at risk? Some would say that making decisions on what tools/frameworks a company will use is like the backbone as to why AI isn’t as close to causing a problem. However you can still ask it for pointers if you’re a good prompter and go from there… But anyways what thoughts do you guys have?
Which software jobs will AI take first?
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#2Front end will go first. Designers will become front end engineers
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#3Web devs? I don't know what that would look like, maybe it would be a AI enhanced Weebly/Wix/CMS/no code platforms? Then again those platforms are fairly capable and didn't make much of any web devs obsolete in the past few years so I don't know what to think.
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#4It probably enhanced productivity, which means one guy may do two or three people's jobs. But still, AI is not perfect for taking over entire web dev, UI design, or DBM jobs.
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#5I think developers are first in the line. I'm collecting AI agents into a directory and I see a lot of real good options. You can check and filter here by category aiagentsdirectory.com
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#6What would happen if we had, not a general AI yet, but easy access to the knowledge required to perform any job?
I like this prediction by Alvin Toffler:
> People of post-industrial society change their profession and their workplace often. People have to change professions because professions quickly become outdated. People of post-industrial society thus have many careers in a lifetime. The knowledge of an engineer becomes outdated in ten years. People look more and more for temporary jobs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock
Instead of "losing" jobs (ok, some tasks of those will be replaced), there will be re-mixed jobs: dev-designers? doctor-programmers? more and more specialized branches of every permutation.
The only way to "lose" jobs, instead of transformed, would be by full AI replacement, which didn't happen in this AI summer.
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#7CRUD backends and their types can be easily boiled down into various statements about permissions. I don't think CRUD needs to be hand-written anymore. I think that will go first.
That said, I think the data engineering aspects will be around for a while. For example integrating outside data, analytical processing.
One domain that won't be heavily affected for a while is gaming. Gaming will only hire more and more AI developers to make the content more interesting/interactive.
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#8The benchmarks are mostly Python. Python is mostly used by AI engineers. So most likely the AI engineers' job, lol.
Another angle is that it's based on training data. Something like Android and web changes drastically every damn year. We've seen people applying for jobs and using LLMs; the key indicator is that they're using architecture from 2018 or so.
It hasn't been well trained on game dev, either. Most of these are not benchmarked, so they tend to fly below the radar.
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#9CRUD backends and their types can be easily boiled down into various statements about permissions. I don't think CRUD needs to be hand-written anymore. I think that will go first. That said, I think the data engineering aspects will be around for a while. For example integrating outside data, analytical processing. One domain that won't be heavily affected for a while is gaming. Gaming will only hire more and more AI…
but crud is only 20% of BE
rest is biz logic and workflows and those are tough
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#10Front end will go first. Designers will become front end engineers
I'm already seeing it. Our BE team is now expected to churn out FE applications.
BE will generate FE templates and to wire it up to the API they built
FE, designers are screwed. BE is safe.