Hence why software developers are out of job, eventually.
The day of only a few people around the factory floor to babysit the robots will come, but lets keep celebrating the day they start unloading them from the delivery trucks for installation.
Not everywhere in the globe, the difference now is that those overseas teams can be reduced as well, as we outsource their work into AI managed systems.
It's not clear if the overall number of needed software developers will decrease or simply stop growing. The amount of software necessary in the future will only keep growing. Using the same folks to produce more is a large possibility. I imagine it will take decades to see a shrinking workforce that meaningfully displaces many existing software developers.
Yes, the difference, like on those factories is that instead of the 100 that were on site when the trucks arrived at the factory, there will be 10 of them left.
I have a lot of uncertainty about the number of professional software developers there will be in the long run, but not about whether they'll be using LLMs.
The day of only a few people around the factory floor to babysit the robots will come, but lets keep celebrating the day they start unloading them from the delivery trucks for installation.