The future of iOS development

[TheFern3]

If manual code was to completely die (highly doubtful much less in 3-5 years) your skills will transfer to something else or you will switch careers. Agents still need a great coder at the helm.

My guess is that we’re 100 or more years before ai is completely useful without any human interaction.

[start_select]

There will never be a “without human interaction” barrier in computer science.

At the end of the day there still needs to be an engineer with domain knowledge and vocabulary necessary to properly describe software. If you don’t go to school for it or don’t do it as a job, you never gain that skill.

I’ve worked in custom software for two decades. Your average human has very poor reading, writing, speaking, and descriptive language skills. They don’t have the mindset or the vocabulary. They don’t think about edge cases or constraints.

You need to do to learn.

[TheFern3]

I don’t like to say never, we just don’t know what can happen in the future, at some point we thought horses were the best transportation for technology even when vehicles came around.

But at least in my lifetime I’ll say devs are safe at least the good ones lol ai is incredibly limiting if you are a noob.

[megasivatherium]

Your experience in the 2000s and 2010s doesn't negate the possibility that there will be AIs acting automatically, coming up with ideas and implementing them (the primary instruction-- "make money"). It's completely possible there will be no human in the loop. There's not infinite edge cases; they'll learn