From one piece What I believe about the future of software development 9 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Open source in it's current form doesn't make sense anymore. "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" is still true but now we have artificial eyeballs.
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The terminal is dead. Most developer tooling will be washed away by tokens. Shells, text editors, CLI tools won't be used by humans anymore. There's no need to know command line flags and jq invocations anymore.
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Yes. Some people will be priced out of producing software. Just like only some people could afford a personal computer in the 80s and 90s, for the next few years, if you can't get enough tokens, you're playing second league.
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It'll take a generation for the "new software" to replace the "old software". Just like there are people happily employed as ASP developers today, there will be people employed to write code in 10 years.
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Performance critical contributions by humans will stay what they are: an edge case. In 99% of software it does not matter that you could've written a faster algorithm or picked a better data structure.
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A lot of UI exists because software can't understand what you want. Menus, settings screens, dashboards, filters: much of it is a human-accessible API to a dumb machine. Smart machines need much less UI.
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The difference between software engineering at large corporations and small ones will increase. Start-ups adopting practices of Google will look even sillier than before, because they can now build so much faster and with so much less constraints.
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The craft of writing code will disappear, while the craft of building software becomes more important than ever.Their words
The craft of writing code will disappear. Yes, there are still Italian shoe makers around. But look at your feet. The craft of building software will be more important than ever.
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Most bugs won't be "coding" bugs. They'll be "you asked for the wrong thing" bugs.