Will Coding Jobs Be Automated?

Will Coding Jobs Be Automated?

Programming will increasingly be automated; and, as someone who got started writing assembler on a PDP-8, I can tell you that programming is already highly automated, and that a good optimizing compiler is already an advanced AI system that takes your hints and turns them into working code.

Are coding jobs going away?

That's probably true. However, most of the programming jobs that exist today, done by mediocre developers working on mundane programming tasks, will disappear. The demand for online programming courses and coding bootcamps will drop like a rock.

Will coders be replaced by robots?

So will AI replace programmers? No, it won't, at least, for now. Programmers, however, should be aware of current technologies like GPT-3, which are capable of generating computer programs that do not involve any coding. Software engineers can simply describe parameters and elements to prime or prepare the program.

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James Sterling reports on renewable energy developments, climate policy, ecological conservation, and green tech innovations around the globe.