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Re:Why software developers might be obsolete by 2030 by p1esk on Monday October 19, 2020 @06:10PM (#24831591)
FORTRAN did expand the set of people able to write code, but it still required as much rigor as before

How far this set of people should expand for software development to become like driving, which still requires rigor, but is accessible to almost everyone? Do you see this happening as a result of the latest AI breakthroughs, or are there any other fundamental challenges?

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Re:Why software developers might be obsolete by 2030 by gumby on Monday October 19, 2020 @09:21PM (#24833086)
As the last 20 years of AI research has ignored semantics I can't see it helping in a significant way.

I suspect it will be a while after driving requires zero rigor (or even participation) before computers could program themselves.

Frankly, given how hard it is to explain to another human how to do something why should we expect smart computers to be easier to manage? Unless...we use a highly structured manner of issuing instructions...i.e. a programming language!

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