Amazon Cloud CEO Says Human Developers Will Soon Be a Thing of the Past

Re:Amazon Cloud CEO Says Human Developers Will Soon Be a Thi... by simonblack on Friday August 23, 2024 @07:49PM (#41334170)

I've been a programmer since the 1970s. This bullshit theory gets trotted out every few years. 50 years in, and there are more and more programmers, not less and less.

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Re:Amazon Cloud CEO Says Human Developers Will Soon Be a Thi... by mindcrime on Friday August 23, 2024 @07:54PM (#41334210)

And yet... the past is no guaranteed predictor of the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction

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Re:Amazon Cloud CEO Says Human Developers Will Soon Be a Thi... by simonblack on Friday August 23, 2024 @08:08PM (#41334295)

That's very true. But ... there has to be a change somewhere to get a different outcome. There has been no change, so there is no different outcome.

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Re:Amazon Cloud CEO Says Human Developers Will Soon Be a Thi... by bediger4000 on Friday August 23, 2024 @09:41PM (#41334838)

Deluxe! Remember back about 1995, when Windows NT would make programmers 5 to 10 times more productive, and CEOs could get rid of the corresponding head count?

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