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Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience by visarga on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @01:00PM (#35263939)
> We'll probably need less and less developers as AI advance. Just like we need less manual labor in farms today.

There will be more developing than ever, but humans will sit on a different place in the stack. We'll be more like team managers. Stable Diffusion can make pretty pictures by itself, but only when a human directs it then it can have value.

Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience by pleb_nz on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @01:07PM (#35264031)
The point is you'll need less humans to do the same work. Possible far less, maybe it'll be a smaller ratio to start with but eventually that ratio will grow.

Most organizations are there to make profit for shareholders, if more profit can be obtained through less hires while still meeting money making goals the you can bet your bottom dollar they will hire less people where possible.

People early in their careers should be ready for this as one day there may be far less times available to them in this field.

Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience by wilsonnb3 on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @04:51PM (#35266924)
Literally every programming advancement from punch cards to now has made you need less people to do the same amount of work but we have more programmers working today than ever before.

Your outlook sounds plausible in a vacuum but doesn’t match reality.

Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience by pleb_nz on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:29AM (#35274459)
Happy if it is it different for sure. And It's not quite there yet, but if it keeps going the way it is this will be the first time a tool will have significant impact and a single person can do the work of 5 in a lot of industries and domains, not just software.

This might be a bigger evolution in the coming iterations and might be the biggest thing since electricity and the internet.

Pretty exciting, but I would also have options or be deep in the thick of it if I were younger.