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Re:The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and the End of Code by tryitnow on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @07:31PM (#11718489)
As someone else already pointed out we actually do have robots doing surgery. AIs are not dogs - that's a bad analogy.

Right now development costs per head are sky high. If there's any way to cut that spend, you better believe executives will be all over it. A lot of businesses don't care so much about quality and craftsmanship - as long as their customers are stuck with them they're perfectly willing to ship the most minimal product they can get away with.

Re:The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and the End of Code by eellpp on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @08:25PM (#11718776)
> Right now development costs per head are sky high. If there's any way to cut that spend, you better believe executives will be all over it.

There is already a big trend of automation albeit on the IT side and not on development. Where it used to take a separate IT team and developers and DB admins etc there is growing field of devOps with automation. Companies, especially startups are biting into this trend and vendors, especially Cloud vendors are spearheading this movement.

If there is glare of possibility of automating the development, these vendors and companies would have been all over it. This behaviour is not seen, means that this a possibility that exists in distant future.

Re:The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and the End of Code by astazangasta on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @08:13PM (#11718710)
We have humans using a very fancy robot (DaVinci) to do surgery. So far no AI has been given the knife.