What will happen to programmers with the advent of AI? / Hebrew
🤖 One of the skeptical questions is what will happen to programmers with the advent of AI? Like, we will sit here until the office plankton replenishes the labor market. I have written about this more than once, and here is the “authoritative” opinion from The Economist, I am retelling the facts:
1. Generative AI is already used by about 40% of developers. Microsoft Copilot – 2 million subscribers, 90% of Fortune 100 companies. Programmers delegate data search to AI, saving up to 20% of time.
2. AI has made programming more accessible: in the Asia-Pacific region, the number of developers will increase by 21% by 2029, in Latin America – by 17%. India exports software worth $193 billion, overtaking the US in the number of specialists.
3. 250 startups create AI programming tools. Microsoft Copilot, chatbots from Amazon, Apple, Alphabet and Meta are all implementing solutions to generate code and simplify tasks.
4. About 35% of programmers saved 10-20% of their time thanks to AI. But complex tasks are still solved by humans, and so far the quality of code from AI is not always up to par.
Journalists of The Economist believe that AI is radically changing the work of programmers, making it faster and easier, but it is still far from completely replacing people. AI takes over the routine, while developers focus on more complex tasks. So in the near future, programmers will remain in the game, just their role will change. The boys tactfully kept silent about the next step, which will come to the mass result of programmers in kindergarten, when AI will figure everything out.
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