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Is AI Going To Replace Programmers?

Engineers, more specifically software engineers, have been taking away jobs for decades now. They have been automating everything.

Bank tellers, travel agents, data entry divisions and more have disappeared over the years replaced by faster, accurate, and easy-to-maintain software that requires minimal human interference.

The thing about software engineers is that they are always thirsty. Nothing can satisfy them other than total obliteration…okay, I’m going off track.

A company called Cognition Labs has decided to go after another regular human job - software engineering.

Devin, developed by Cognition, is the world’s first fully autonomous AI software engineer. The company claims Devin can plan and execute complex engineering tasks requiring thousands of decisions. It can recall relevant context at every step, learn over time, and fix mistakes.

On the SWE-Bench, a test for language models to solve real problems on GitHub, Devin outperformed other models by a great distance.

Unassisted Devin was thrice as good as assisted Claude 2 which was the best performance yet.

Just last month, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, predicted that the next generation will not need to learn coding.

“It is our job to create computing technology such that nobody has to program. And that the programming language is human, everybody in the world is now a programmer. This is the miracle of artificial intelligence,” Huang said.

He’s confident that Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence will be so advanced that the only language you’ll need to code will be your native language.

When everyone will have the ability to program without going to college or self-learning for months; will there be no need for software programmers?

Well, a yes or no answer is not possible for this question.

Let’s try both the answers.

“Yes, AI will be better than human coders and replace them completely.”

The problem with this school of thought is even if AI can be faster than human coders and can learn from and correct its own mistakes, who will stop it from creating waste? Who will inject creativity and fun into AI? As advanced as AI might become in the coming decades, we are far from replicating feelings and emotions. We haven’t even understood them well enough biologically. So, in mathematical aspects, AI will beat us; in biological aspects, for good or for bad, it can not replicate us (yet).

If you’re just someone who writes code, yes, you can be replaced. On the other hand, if you are someone who does not know coding and is full of ideas, the situation is reversed.

“No, AI can never replace humans. It can never replicate human intricacies like creativity and communication.”

Correct, AI and humans will be distinct, at least for the next few decades. Probably centuries. Probably even more.

But why can’t AI replace you as a programmer? It can code better than you, if not now, eventually. It will document better than you, that’s a guarantee. It will access data faster than you - at the speed the hardware can afford, which is increasing every year. Coders can be replaced by AI.

According to a survey published by US firm Challenger Gray, the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) is posing a significant threat to white-collar jobs. Challenger recorded that around 4,628 layoffs are attributed to Artificial Intelligence since May 2023, when it started tracking this reason. The companies either shifted to developing AI and hiring in the related roles or replaced some tasks and roles with it.

You might think a job like customer support might require more of a human touch…

Dukaan, a Bengaluru-based startup, has recently laid off over 90 percent of its customer support staff, citing the employees as "overqualified" and "fussy." The use if AI instead has led to a significant reduction in query resolution time and customer support costs, by approximately 85 percent.

AI can replace you if you choose to stay only coders. On the flip side, programmers who make good use of AI have become more productive. More productive engineers will lead to more projects completed which in turn will lead to more profits. This might ultimately lead to more investment in technology and more human management hands on deck. Human involvement might be more than ever just not in the way it is now.

In short, AI can replace pure coders. AI will not always replace good software engineers. AI will force the current job roles in the tech industry to evolve drastically.

What are you thoughts? I would be happy to receive a reply.

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