This wouldn't be good for an engineering team, but it would be great for almost any other team that doesn't have a strong sense of what to automate and how.
The reality of this is the only engineers involved will be "prompt engineers."
would be great for almost any other team that doesn't have a strong sense of what to automate and how
The "what" is always the hardest part, both to acknowledge as being necessary and to get right.
The "what" is the hard part, yes, but the other hard part is finding the bandwith to get the business to build this automation. LLMs empower non-engineers with a technical bent to create helpful solutions for themselves.
It feels like Microsoft has a paid fleet of AI evangelists prowling the forums praising anything related to AI no matter how ludicrous.
Which is great job security for the engineering team a few years down the road, when there's no one left who understands how the AI generated app works but it's become a mission critical part of some department's workflow. Kind of like all the tools that have been hacked together over the years using VB, Access97, Excel, etc.
You basically have this everywhere, non programmers building simple automations in excel, building simple websites with squarespace, now they can build simple chatbots as well. Meanwhile the full time programmers move slightly up to more complex tasks.
The world is full of devs who do not know how to code
Wait like 2-3 years and while you won't know it, you won't have to imagine it.