I may be a old man yelling at the clouds, but I still think programming skills are going nowhere. He seems to bet his future on his ‘predictions’
The only thing AI will replace is small, standalone scripts/programs. 99% of stuff companies actually write is highly integrated with existing code, special (sometimes obsolete) frameworks, open and closed source. The things they throw at you in interviews is generic scripts because they aren’t telling you to read through 6k lines of korn shell scripts to actually understand and write their code. And they won’t have you read and understand millions of lines of code, configs and makefiles to implement something new, in the interview.
He basically cheated on his little brother in Mario Kart and thinks he can now beat Verstappen on the real track. Bro needs to get a reality check in an actual work environment. Especially in a large company.
I recently needed to implement some batch processing logic in our code to account for some api level restrictions (the code already pulls from the api in pages and date ranges, but if I specify a date range too wide or a batch that would get too many records back, it gets rejected, so we need to break it down and run the date range in batches). I tell this junior developer what the issue is, and what we need to add to the existing class in our codebase. I follow up with him after a week, and this is what he sends me.
Boilerplate code from chatgpt that has almost nothing to do with what we discussed. And how can you even give me a whole ‘working’ code without even testing it? He didn’t even clone our original repo and test it as is to understand why we need what we need. AI sure is making programmers dumb.
I would argue that he is not a programmer
