Re:Will humans write code in 2040?
by majormajor on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @10:11PM
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I think it's subtly different in a very important way: there are a zillion developers doing almost the same thing everyday with almost the same mistakes.
The devil is in the almost. That's where the inability to trivially design a framework to cover all those cases comes in. That's the little subtle differences in business logic, that turn into different flavors of tech debt, that keep people in a job for a long time.
Tools and abstractions will improve, but here's the flip side: have you ever worked on a project where you consistently delivered 100% of what the stakeholders asked for, on time, with no negotiation or compromise needed? I haven't, so I think the more we can deliver, the more that will be asked, for quite a while.
The devil is in the almost. That's where the inability to trivially design a framework to cover all those cases comes in. That's the little subtle differences in business logic, that turn into different flavors of tech debt, that keep people in a job for a long time.
Tools and abstractions will improve, but here's the flip side: have you ever worked on a project where you consistently delivered 100% of what the stakeholders asked for, on time, with no negotiation or compromise needed? I haven't, so I think the more we can deliver, the more that will be asked, for quite a while.