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Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" (www.windowscentral.com)

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[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 84 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'll take "things business people dont understand" for 100$.

No one hires software engineers to code. You're hired to solve problems. All of this AI bullshit has 0 capability to solve your problems, because it can only spit out what it's already ~~stolen from~~ seen somewhere else

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 4 months ago

It can also throw things against the wall with no concern for fitness-to=purpose. See "None pizza, left beef".

[–] breckenedge@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’ve worked with a few PMs over my 12 year career that think devs are really only there to code like trained monkeys.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

I'm at the point where what I work on requires such a depth of knowledge that I just manage my own projects. Doesn't help that my work's PM team consistently brings in new hires only to toss them on the difficult projects no one else is willing to take. They see a project is doomed to fail so they put their least skilled and newest person on it so the seniors don't suffer any failures.

Simplifying things to a level that is understandable for the PMs just leads to overlooked footguns. Trying to explain a small subset of the footguns just leads to them wildly misinterpreting what is going on, causing more work for me to sort out what terrible misconceptions they've blasted out to everyone else.

If you can't actually be a reliable force multiplier, or even someone I can rely on to get accurate information from other teams, just get out of my way please.