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    ‘Marching off a cliff’: Developers at Microsoft Build question their future relevance

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    1. MetaKnowing on

      “The chatter at the conference, unaddressed by Microsoft executives during their keynotes on stage, was the extent to which the exact features the company is selling to developers will replace those same developers in due time.

      “Is there going to be a Build 2035, or will there not be any more developers?” a software engineering vice president attending the conference told Semafor, joking that future conferences will be attended by all of our agents. “It feels like we are marching off a cliff.”

      That’s not a talking point for Microsoft, though. The goal, according to Microsoft, is to free up engineers and allow them to be more creative. But these technologies may shrink (or wipe out) an entire class of junior developers who would have done this work previously.”

    2. Drivingfinger on

      The rest of the world is finally beginning to understand how it felt to be an auto worker during the big robotics push in the 80s.

      You’re all swimming up a fast moving river. People act like they can fight the tide, or that a government will protect them from becoming obsolete. The AI overlord is coming – doesn’t matter how much you wave your arms or splash your feet… any progress towards regulation or control is going to be washed back down the river.

      When have corporations ever chosen not to maximize profits? Besides the fact that any regulation would need to be worldwide, not just country government based. As if every country would just toe the line anyway, there would become black ops ai. lol.

      Just embrace it already.

      Death, taxes, and obsolescence via (the cheapest workforce) AI.

    3. Minute-Method-1829 on

      we are nearing a stage where it simply won’t be possible for everyone to create enough “value” to sustain themselfes in the current system. in itself not a huge problem, but with the current system a gigantic problem.

    4. Pantim on

      Note, wiping out junior programmers… Or any junior in any field means that one of the following MUST HAPPEN. 

      1) The quest for automation continues so it can handle senior level jobs eventually because there will never be any new senior level people to fill the role. 

      Or 

      2) School has to train people to be senior level 

      … And which do you think is the goal??