Matt Garman sees a shift in software development as AI automates coding, telling staff to enhance product-management skills to stay competitive.
Fucking hell, 80% of my job is finding out what the requirements are. 20% is then using a specialized language to write down all these requirements and the thousands of decisions I make on how to meet them.
If AI somehow replaces those 20% coding,
- I still have to do 80% of my job, and
- I still have to tell the AI all this shit, just this time in natural language, which is awful for codifying requirements.
How is this guy a manager, but has no idea what a software engineer does all day?
This is why engineering managers need to come from engineering. If they couldn’t help out in the codebase in an emergency situation, they shouldn’t be making decisions like this. It’s not unreasonable for ELT to ask questions about this but if their reporters are not telling them the truth, the whole structure is broken.
Local boss doesn’t understand what his employees do all day
All these CEOs and CIO have been huffing too much paint
I would personally adore seeing amazon’s infastructure ignite in flames over this terrible idea
I’m dying to know what AI model he has that can maintain code XD
Why maintain code? Just describe the program you want in a query and then every time it might need maintenance, you just tell it to generate anew.
