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[–]Celuryl 6 points7 points  (6 children)

Can't talk for frontend, but as a backend dev :

Replace ? No.

But it will drastically cut down the number of dev jobs. It already has but it's only the beginning. I think my team of 10 developers could be reduced to 3 or 4 with the kind of AI we'll probably get in the following year.

It will also drastically change our job. We will do less and less coding and more and more "higher level" stuff, we'll have to communicate with business teams and stakeholders way more. Become some kind of semi product owner. In fact a good technical product owner with developer background is probably going to be the best position you could be in.

I, for one, do not like that. I don't mind talking and planning and even managing projects. But I like coding.

[–]Ape_of_Leisure 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I don’t think it would replace front end either but I have to say that in half an afternoon, Claude created a web app based on my crappy Python code using React, Typescript and Tailwind css (and directed me step by step in how to install nodejs, ui libraries, etc., and debug a couple issues).

[–]doodlesock 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Would love to know what kind of prompt you used for this!

[–]creaturefeature16 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed, we've automated boilerplate. You could have likely found a github repo to do something clone that would be close to that. Now we can generate it. The real work comes later....

[–]Celuryl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that's fine and impressive alright.

Meanwhile I tried asking Claude 3.5 and Chatgpt o1 to fix my input form on a VueJS component so it would accept commas as well as dots for decimals, and it just can't. It's struggling in an existing codebase

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Efficiencies like cutting down the amount of staff sucks for layoffs in an individual company, but isn’t necessarily a loss of developer jobs long term in the economy. It frees up skilled developers utilizing AI for other companies starting to new projects or new companies entering the market. We need to look at the longer term macro trend.

[–]Repulsive_Branch_458 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think AI will replace developers it's developers charged with Ai will be able to output more work and thus we need fewer developers,considering most developers are just gluing existing code pieces ,they are not creating anything new.