Let’s assume that in 10 years, AI has advanced absurdly, insanely fast, and is now capable of doing everything a Senior SWE can do. It can program in 15 different languages, 95% accuracy with almost no mistakes, can create entire applications in minutes, and no more engineers or SWEs are needed… What will all the devs do? Do they just become homeless? Transition to medical field, nursing? Become tradespeople like plumbers, HVAC?
This seems to assume that human written code is better than AI written code. That’s currently case, generally speaking, so we need plenty of checks in place. But once it catches up, is there really a difference if an AI or human writes the code?
I don’t look forward to debugging generated code, but that’s assuming the current state of code gen. In hypothetical future where most code is AI generated, surely we’ll expect readable or provably correct code.