What a senior software engineer actually thinks about A.I. taking their job
We’ve all heard the rumors and speculations as we walk past the proverbial water cooler day in and day out. A.I. is coming for our jobs. It’s going to write better, more secure and more scalable code than any human ever could and it’ll do it for pennies on the dollar. And the cherry-picked demo’s we’ve all seen so far can definitely start to put fear into the hearts of any coder out there. But is it true…
The demo’s are cool, I’ll give them that, but they’re typically missing a critical component that can’t really be shown in a 3-minute clip. And that component, that would take much longer to show and that really would bore the life out of anyone watching, is a real-world scenario.
Most demo’s that we’ve seen of A.I. writing code so far aren’t real. They aren’t representative of an actual work day in a large (or even small) tech firm. More than likely, the prompts have been tested thoroughly ahead of time to ensure that the output is just as expected and that it films well. And fair enough, as A.I. companies have a brand and reputation to maintain. It makes sense and I totally get it.
But a real day-in-the-life of a software engineer working for a large company is much different than what we see on the big screen. For one, it’s definitely not as fun as whatever…
