Since this sort of coding is exactly what FAANG interviews test for, maybe FAANG engineers will be some of the first coders automated out of a job. That would be an interesting irony.
HN has the best thread for discussing the caste baste discrimination that happens among Indian tech workers in the USA. It turns out that being white still gives you a lot of privilege, even in tye FAANGs.
I feel like this "only" is erroneous. While FAANG do have solid diversity policies in place to assume they're the only companies capable diversity in their hiring practices is offensive to everyone else.
That said, its likely that the job of being a dev is going to be largely debugging generated code in the future no matter where you work.
I think this is an important point.
> That said, its likely that the job of being a dev is going to be largely debugging generated code in the future no matter where you work.
This and formulating the right prompts, i think.
I'm a FAANG interviewer and I've run my coding questions through ChatGPT.
The TL;DR is that code would easily pass a junior-level interview, and maybe a mid-level one. I'm definitely convinced these technologies will disrupt leetcode-style coding interviews.
So either we embrace it, or ditch this approach altogether.
I imagine an AI in that kind of environment inventing Skynet and doing us all in.
The job is much more architecture/design, creating API contracts, understanding the health of systems in many different ways, measuring impact of changes, etc. Regular engineering stuff at big scale. Obviously there’s plenty of coding too, but it’s not really the important part of the job, and already has a ton of automation for boilerplate.
I imagine that the automation will just improve another step change, there will be more need for review and guidance of the AI algorithms and the engineers will do more of this. And interviews will involve in some way.