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Software developers: How plans to automate coding could mean big changes ahead

by sunnyP on 8/4/20, 3:37 PM with 2 comments

  • by faizshah on 8/4/20, 3:51 PM

    No doubt these innovations are impressive and will change software developers role. But I think the way to think about this is more like how ML replaced expert systems or ruby on rails helps you write less code using meta programming and code gen. It’s one thing to generate code it’s another thing to maintain it, test it, make tradeoffs, find product market fit, etc. which is the bulk of the job. But we do see innovations in each of those pieces so maybe it will come around sooner than we think and we’ll all be no-code + zapier developers.
  • by tmaly on 8/4/20, 3:43 PM

    There is still going to be a bridge to gap between what business people want and what the computer needs to do. Software developers will need to still bridge that gap.