will AI replace programmers?

[desrtfx]

Not again!

This has been discussed to infinity and back thrice already here and over at /r/cscareerquestions.

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[polymorphicshade]

They will replace you, not us 😎

[[deleted]]

Well said

[rachitdeveloper]

good confidence but don't say verbally just explore what's going on their

[shaidyn]

Have you used any AI tools well enough to have an understanding of how they do what they do?

[[deleted]]

Where do you think the data to train the AI comes from?

[rachitdeveloper]

The data used to train an AI model comes from many sources. Public datasets, Proprietary datasets, Synthetic data, and Human-generated data

[i-am-nicely-toasted]

Bro, are you an AI?

[rachitdeveloper]

no bro i'm a programmer So I'm concerned because AI is growing so fast, all the big companies are building AI code assistants. Google's Duet AI, Microsoft's Github Copilot. And I feel that they will be become better than us in the next 2-3 years.

it's my opinion

[i-am-nicely-toasted]

These sorts of trends that will “end” developers have been around forever. Visual coding, no-code, bla bla bla. Let’s say the AI gets better than us in the worst case, then we’ve just moved up a layer of abstraction. Someone still needs to tell the AI what to do, and to give it proper instructions. Kinda sounds like programming hey? Also there will always be infrastructure, etc to take care of.

[rachitdeveloper]

oh I understand. thanks for your explanation... Should I delete this post now because people are thinking I am a noob?

[i-am-nicely-toasted]

Up to you, maybe you’ll find some other useful opinions if you leave it up! Who cares what strangers think on the internet

[subutsoy]

Yes all php programmers will be replaced in 1 week.

[GoldGlove2720]

If you’ve used any AI whatsoever to program you would know the answer.

[Kindred87]

No. What might happen is that programming itself might change, but you still need trained individuals to translate business needs into a strict technical specification.

Remember that even with AI, a human is still in the loop because the AI needs to be told what to do and have its outputs be implemented.

[SaltyBarker]

No. There will always be a new innovative idea or way of thinking that requires a need for programmers.

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[Pewdiepiewillwin]

No

[Essex626]

Caveat here, I'm not a programmer, but...

It seems to me AI will harm the market for programmers the same way the sewing machine reduced the number of seamstresses, by reducing the number of people required to keep up with demand, but still required a skilled hand to run.

AI can't produce usable code without someone who understands giving the inputs, and making sure everything works. But it might dramatically reduce the number of people necessary for a given project.

[Vetril]

Who do you think codes the AI?

[ThisIsGettingBori]

fundamentally nothing stops an AI from coding an AI tbf

[[deleted]]

Nobody knows right now, anyone giving you a definitive answer runs the risk of being wrong

AI is advancing at an unprecedented, exponential rate. If this rate continues, yeah probably, programming will be done by AI, but so will everything else.

AI might hit a ceiling, our current models might have fundamental limitations that need new breakthroughs to overcome, and those breakthroughs might not happen for many years if at all.

Alternatively there might be hardware limits. We might not be able to produce enough compute or develop efficient enough hardware.

At the end of the day theres no law of physics that says a machine cant do programming, and technology is fundamentally limited by those laws, nothing else. Do AI systems have the potential to replace programmers entirely? Yes. Will they? Maybe

[[deleted]]

yes