> I think we will still need software devs, but not as many as we do today.
I'm more of an optimist in that regard. Yes, if you're looking at a very specific feature set/product that needs to be maintained/develop, you'll need less devs for that.
But we're going to see the Jevons Paradox with AI generated code, just as we've seen that in the field of web development where few people are writing raw HTML anymore.
It's going to be fun when nontechnical people who'd maybe know a bit of excel start vibe coding a large amount of software, some of which will succeed and require maintenance. This maintenance might not involve a lot of direct coding either, but a good understanding of how software actually works.
I'm more of an optimist in that regard. Yes, if you're looking at a very specific feature set/product that needs to be maintained/develop, you'll need less devs for that.
But we're going to see the Jevons Paradox with AI generated code, just as we've seen that in the field of web development where few people are writing raw HTML anymore.
It's going to be fun when nontechnical people who'd maybe know a bit of excel start vibe coding a large amount of software, some of which will succeed and require maintenance. This maintenance might not involve a lot of direct coding either, but a good understanding of how software actually works.