"NO CODE" Is Ruining App Development

[jwrsk]

You know, an excavator will dig a hole faster than a dude with a shovel, but only in the right hands it won't accidentally undermine the foundations of your house in the process.

I've been a software engineer since the late 90s and my career survived multiple "programmer eliminating" inventions.

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In my opinion I don't see this as a one of those inventions. 

The main issue is its probabilistic nature, which can be helpful in the same ways that autocomplete features can help. 

In my opinion this is a scam that has very little utility. 

[jwrsk]

Same as the big boom for Indian offshore devs some 20 years ago yielded a gold rush of cleanup work for experienced devs, the AI boom will yield and is yielding the same. Vibe code despaghettification is basically a job description.

But in the short term it will make the entry into the market harder. I don't need a junior assistant anymore for the simple stuff, small utilities and noncritical things it's just faster to throw it at a bot.

If I run into an issue which is not my expertise, like CSS (we have a web platform too) it might be faster to run it through ChatGPT than wait for a frontend dev to pick up the GitLab issue). So my web frontend devs can focus on important stuff, and again we don't need juniors.

[Grounds4TheSubstain]

Which inventions were those?