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Doyouevengeek t1_j6e4rn2 wrote

Reply to comment by r2k-in-the-vortex in AI will not replace software developers, It will just drastically reduce the number of them. by masterile

You're assuming that businesses don't have a cap on other activities related outside of coding, such as product, planning, marketing, sales etc. The pace will be defined by the business and the need for the amount of developers to maintain the AI based delivery pipeline. So pure dev code monkeys that exist today will be reduced significantly. Others like SMEs will still be in demand.

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r2k-in-the-vortex t1_j6e8jje wrote

Software plays a very big role in all those other activities too. Even a company with no in house software development uses software and pays for it's development, the coding simply happens somewhere else.

As long as value added by software development pays for the devs wages, companies will keep paying for developers to work.

The upper bound of it is only that everything is automated by software. But that is an utopia where it makes no more sense to talk about jobs anyway. Not in the same sense as what jobs are today at least.

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