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Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by ge96 on Monday May 11, 2026 @01:35PM (#48098023)
I wonder though, can AI make the next JS framework. I mean that in sincerity, there was the leap from jQuery to React for ex. If an AI only knows jQuery and no one makes React, will React come out of AI.
Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by ASalazarMX on Monday May 11, 2026 @01:45PM (#48098142)
News: "AGI refuses to make another JS framework, rages on the follies of misguided developers and their wateful JS crutches"

Developer community: Wow, we truly have become obsolete now!

Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by notpachet on Monday May 11, 2026 @03:08PM (#48099305)
In a shocking twist, it turns out that Mootools is the agents' preferred framework
Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by ge96 on Monday May 11, 2026 @01:52PM (#48098250)
Who will be the disrupters when there is nothing to disrupt
Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by scj on Monday May 11, 2026 @02:26PM (#48098742)
A thought experiment: When all practical software is only written by AIs, will the AIs use goto? What will the programming language of AIs look like?

My bet is something _like_ assembly, but not assembly.

That being said, I think humans will still program for fun. Just like we paint portraiture in a world with cameras.

Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by ge96 on Monday May 11, 2026 @03:00PM (#48099217)
Yeah that's my thing for my hardware projects, I'm not going to reach for an LLM to do it, I want to write the code myself/be present. For something new I would consider using LLM to generate something, like a computer vision implementation or something I don't already know. The end result I would know how it works, just for POC.
Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by r_lee on Monday May 11, 2026 @04:19PM (#48100154)
I think it won't be like assembly, because it takes more information vs building blocks that have more dense information in them, kind of like how we use libraries and frameworks
Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by timacles on Monday May 11, 2026 @08:24PM (#48102595)
There will be a new language created optimized for AI development
Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by wiseowise on Monday May 11, 2026 @03:34PM (#48099618)
It can't. Framework hierarchy is largely based on social structure, rather than pure technical merit. Otherwise React would've been displaced long time ago.
Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by smrq on Monday May 11, 2026 @01:43PM (#48098130)
People didn't leap from jQuery to React. It's a lot easier to imagine an AI looking at jQuery and [insert any server side MVC framework] and inventing Backbone.