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Comment by BurningPenguin | Hacker News Reader

> Automation and AI will make most basic programming jobs redundant.

I kinda doubt that. You still need someone to act as a translator between user and machine.

I find it that the people who say "AI will replace developers" are the same ones that were thinking that CMSes will replace the need for developers, then no/low-code will replace the need for developers. But no, users are too stupid to handle stuff. Best case scenario developers will automate the easiest and time consuming things like UI creations and boilerplate using those tools. Most companies I know that use CMSes still have devs changing every single bit of the page because they either customized it so heavily or they simply implemented it wrong. I haven't seen a single successfully low-code company yet(though that just might be me). The same will happen with ChatGPT. It will become a tool, professionals still will be needed to use it properly.

Remember when "the cloud" was going to replace ops and on-prem and yet here was are 17 year since the release of AWS and we've only seen a 40% shift to the cloud and a massive need for ops people. Coders aren't going away they will just shift.

You’re literally off by a factor of 10. Andy Jassy himself said that only 4% of all IT spend is on any cloud provider.

We talk to the machines so the users don’t have to. Can’t you people understand that??

My comment was about entry level programming job.

AI/automation will help more seniors developer to a point that most basic tasks can be done instantly and you don’t need to ask a junior dev to do it.

LLMs have the potential to make that job a lot easier, so a larger pool of people are able to do it.

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