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Ask HN: What's does the future of software engineering look like?

by grandimam on 4/21/25, 5:34 PM with 3 comments

I have started using AI IDEs and it’s both scary and exciting. I am not so much of a doomed but I am thinking more along the lines of like - what’s the future like.

  • by pluc on 4/21/25, 6:29 PM

    Everyone will start using AI to code stuff encouraged by the "cheap costs" and "quick results" that make gullible management salivate. Coding expertise will be replaced by AI expertise, knowledge and skill will become rarer and more expensive as less people take on the "hard work" of being manually smart.

    Money will be in fixing AI slop, exploiting AI shortcomings and in fixing AI technical debt.

    Nothing good will come of it except bringing humanity closer to extinction from the power requirements, making it dumber by providing instant sub-par gratification and making it more dangerous by pretending its results are trustworthy.

    Change my mind.