Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On Wed, 30 Oct 2024, Scott Dorsey wrote:

D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:

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This raises questions about the future job of programmers. Do you believe
that the field will be split into simple code-monkeys where salaries with
the help of AI, will decrease more and more over time, and the "elite" who
actually are the ones who develop new algorithms, tools and AI that serve
to reduce the salaries of the code-monkeys?

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That split happened some time in the late seventies or early eighties.  There
is a very strong distinction between programmers and coders today.  It is
reflected in academic CS programs, some of which follow the ACM curriculum
and teach actual computer science, and some of which are trade schools for
coders.
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There is a very clear distinction and there has been for some time now.
AI probably won't change things any more than the ability to copy and paste
code fragments from the internet has.
--scott
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I've gotten the impression that cut n' paste and/or AI/copilot and the engineers have become pretty distinct teams and cultures.
Perhaps the salaries of the engineers will actually increase, while the first groups salaries, will be driven down close to zero, and most of that cut n' paste work, will be purchased from asia?