I saw another article today saying how companies are laying off tech workers because AI can do the same job. But no concrete examples… again. I figure they are laying people off so they can pay to chase the AI dream. Just mortgaging tomorrow to pay for today’s stock price increase. Am I wrong?
Yeah, I use it daily for coding. It’s a force multiplier. It basically makes me 2 - 3x more effective. My company laid off all our junior engineers and is not hiring juniors any longer.
That certainly won’t come back to haunt them in 10 years. /s
Very shortsighted, but that’s the market we live in. The people making those decisions know they’ll exit before this catches up with the company and leave someone else holding the bag.
In 10 years they’ll have laid off the senior developers and will be using actual AI to translate C-suite dorks’ grunts and marketing speak to code.
Unlikely.
Funny you say this. I’m watching my local coding community say things like “We used to apply to 100+ jobs and get an interview. Now it’s like 300+ jobs.”
It’s a serious change
I’d say more like 20% more productive for most developers. Maybe it suits your coding style better than most?
Most of the time spent developing software isn’t writing code, but understanding the problem you’re trying to solve and translating that into an algorithm. I see more utility in generating tests, since a lot of developers don’t have good testing skills.
I don’t know what tools you’re using, but that translating the problem into an algorithm is exactly what the AI is very good at.
I basically only architect stuff now, then fine tune the AI prompts and results.