Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO's of coding being dead in the water with the rapid prevalence of AI sentiments: "If you go forward 24 months f...

[Windows Central]

Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman predicts a paradigm shift in coding as a career with the prevalence of AI, prompting developers to stop coding in the foreseeable future. They might need to upskill in the field to gain new skills.

Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO's of coding being dead in the water with the rapid prevalence of AI sentiments: "If you go forward 24 months f... : Read more

 

[fenouille]

AI do the coding for you? Ah! I wish! CEO has no clue how limited all of these AI are. Sure, they do make a dev more productive and we all need to learn to use AI to code more efficiently. But AI has no intelligence, no genuine understanding of what's asked of it, only guessing what comes next in a sequence of words. And while it's doing that brilliantly, AI is failing miserably at doing the coding I need to engineer each day. So, I feel very secured in my job today and two years down the road. Don't be afraid to pick software engineering as your career. Silly upper management will still dream to and fail to replace you by the time you retire.

 

[fjtorres5591]

AI do the coding for you? Ah! I wish! CEO has no clue how limited all of these AI are. Sure, they do make a dev more productive and we all need to learn to use AI to code more efficiently. But AI has no intelligence, no genuine understanding of what's asked of it, only guessing what comes next in a sequence of words. And while it's doing that brilliantly, AI is failing miserably at doing the coding I need to engineer each day. So, I feel very secured in my job today and two years down the road. Don't be afraid to pick software engineering as your career. Silly upper management will still dream to and fail to replace you by the time you retire.

Programming languages are formulaic and LLMs are good at enforcing rules and surfacing "known good" code strings. But that is grunt work. There is value there but it is far, far from key to good code.

If anything, it can serve as a profiling proofing tool for debugging.
But it is doubtful it can be of much use in deciding *what* the code needs to do.