Being "Just a Developer" Isn't Enough Anymore
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Being "Just a Developer" Isn't Enough Anymore
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Re: Being "Just a Developer" Isn't Enough Anymore
#2It never was for those doing consulting work, as customers always expected more than plain coding.
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#3Everyone is now a developer (Just don't tell them about software maintenance)
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#4AWS meant that (a lot of) "developers" were needing "Ops" skills
AI hasn't "forced" domain knowledge to be required at all, it's been there as a requirement for a long time (I had several medical projects turn myself and many other good developers away because we didn't have domain knowledge, which was fair because we needed to have some idea of the subtext in the field)
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#5This was true before.
The famous essay "Don't Call Yourself A Programmer" dates from 2011! I thought it was required reading here on HN.
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...
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#6Software Development might be dead, but Software Engineering is alive and well.
Anyone seriously interfacing with AI code generation can tell you that understanding how software is composed and architected is, and will continue to be, a requirement to building anything worthwhile. These systems are impressive but we are a far ways away from "Magical Genie Wishes" as a means of creating software.
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#7Just talking about AI isnt enough to ship your bang average products anymore
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#8My experience is this has always been the case. Although I imagine if there were any just a dev jobs they are at risk!
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#9Being "Just a Developer" was never a thing for anyone above Junior level, AI code generation hasn't changed anything about that.
In fact, AI code generation hasn't changed much at all for anyone with a significant amount of experience (outside of business and management expectations) - its just another tool of varying usefulness.
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