Re:DeepMind’s AlphaCode Conquers Coding, Performing as Well ...
by porknubbins on Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:56PM
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Some engineers are saying AI will replace engineers in particular, mostly because they are the only ones playing with GPT and thinking about automation, and they may not realize how easy other jobs are to automate.
I can’t imagine a world where they fire the devs but still need a HR person to email everyone about enrolling in health plan or whatever.
It's more likely that non-technical people will be pushed out of jobs near software in favor of (former) engineers. Someone non-technical writing prompts for code can't actually read/debug/fix/deploy/integrate the result. Someone who is technical can probably write better AI prompts that yield something usable than someone who is non-technical. Plus they'll know how to handle the result.
The predictions about non-technical roles firing all of the engineers and thinking AI will write all of the code don't really hold water for me. We might see an overall workforce reduction, but engineers will probably be the last ones to leave.