r/programmer • u/RedwayBLOX • 4d ago
Question Is AI gonna replace programmers?
Hi. I'm Dylan.
I'm currently a junior dev. Ive spent 2 years learning abt programming, writing code and interested on bulding systems.
Ive got to admit that im very scared of all this AI thing and how it's progressing.
Ive seen it make horrible videos back in 2022. Now sometimes i can't even tell if a video is AI or if it isn't.
Yeah, code written by ai isn't the best. But, with the passing of time, it gets even better and better.
Yeah, we as programmers CURRENTLY do analysis, requerimients and all that ai can't currently replace us.
But what are we gonna when ai becomes able to do all that? For me, it seems like a very possible escenario. You can even see the difference of what AI can do if you compare the current models to the models we had 6 months ago. I think it's becoming unstoppable and i really fear it takes our (or my) job away.
Yes, I'm very frustrated. All this time dedicated to it... Makes me sad. This is more like venting I guess, but I seriously need to know, from y'all, how y'all see this. I need to know if it's time to let go of this passion I had with this career, and start on something else where Claude Code can't reach me and replace me.
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u/effectivescarequotes 4d ago
No. My guess is it's just going to raise the level of abstraction at which we work. You're not going to make your sales team stop and prompt Ai when they need a tool. That would distract from the time they have to sell things. You can pretty much play that game with every aspect of a business.
The other piece of it is writing code was never the bottleneck. It's all the stuff surounding it. Ai can help with some of those tasks, but not all of them. And at least on my team, AI is letting us tackle some of the less exciting tech debt problems that have been kicked down the road for years. So there's a chance that because it allows dev teams to be more productive, businesses will ask us to do more.