nixCraft 🐧Microsoft: We write 30% of code using Gen AI.
The rest of the world: That explains the current state of Windows 11, MS-Office and all other products.
conscientious objector🇨🇭🪂This! ⬇️
„ In the 1950s and 60s, programmers wrote assembly code, where a single line might represent just one CPU instruction; by the 1970s, higher-level languages like C allowed programmers to express algorithms more concisely, increasing productivity dramatically“
nobody wants to write assembly to create a websites.
#AI is a tool. Higher productivity, yes. But it won’t replace devs. It will make it feasible to write software for business processes where it was to expensive.
Wim🧮That’s not how it worked in the past. We have more devs today employed than ever, despite efficiency gains since the 60‘ or the 2000‘ when I started.
I currently build forms for a city council.Taxes for dogs, school change, and so on. They have 700 processes like this. We will build forms for 60 of them. The rest will be a pdf upload.
Because it would be too expensive to do all 700.
So AI wouldn’t cost us jobs, it would just enable us to do more.