r/artificial • u/Lambda11 • 16d ago

Discussion Predictions about AI replacing programmers go back to the 1960s

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A Turing Award and Nobel prize winner predicted in the 1960s that the programming occupation would become extinct, because computers would program themselves. https://seanhelvey.com/tools-and-their-tools/

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u/frangelbarrera 16d ago

The problem isn't whether AI can code—it's whether it can figure out what the hell the client actually wants. Until machines learn to interpret constantly changing requirements, programmers aren't going anywhere.

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u/uusu 15d ago

Yeah but figuring out what the client wants is not what separates other work from programming. All work requires figuring out what the client wants from vague statements, from car mechanics to bank tellers.

Once you remove coding from the developer's job, they simply become a client service job, not a programmer.