Thorsten Ball
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Their wordsin the future, humans won't find a bug or an issue with the code produced by a model, at least not in a reasonable time. Humans will only review the system and its composition, but it won't be in PRs and it won't be by looking through every line of the code.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentx.com 1st of 15 in this piece
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Their wordsThe craft of writing code will disappear. Yes, there are still Italian shoe makers around. But look at your feet. The craft of building software will be more important than ever.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentx.com 2nd of 15 in this piece
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Their wordsMost bugs won't be "coding" bugs. They'll be "you asked for the wrong thing" bugs.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentx.com 3rd of 15 in this piece
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Their wordsOpen source in it's current form doesn't make sense anymore. "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" is still true but now we have artificial eyeballs.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentx.com 4th of 15 in this piece
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Their wordsPerformance critical contributions by humans will stay what they are: an edge case. In 99% of software it does not matter that you could've written a faster algorithm or picked a better data structure.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentx.com 5th of 15 in this piece
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Their wordsThe terminal is dead. Most developer tooling will be washed away by tokens. Shells, text editors, CLI tools won't be used by humans anymore. There's no need to know command line flags and jq invocations anymore.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentx.com 6th of 15 in this piece
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Their wordsTokens are the new computing paradigm. Everything will be re-made on top of it. We've had deterministic computers for 80 years, so we confuse "how computers have worked" with "how computers must work." We're entering the post-binary era.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentx.com 7th of 15 in this piece
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Their wordsThe triad of PM/Design/Eng will disappear. It does not make any bit of sense anymore. Agile, SCRUM, whatever -- dead.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentx.com 8th of 15 in this piece
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Their words"Engineers" who act as "meat proxies" and shove tickets into agents and report back to humans will no longer be valuable.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentx.com 9th of 15 in this piece
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Their wordsThe difference between software engineering at large corporations and small ones will increase. Start-ups adopting practices of Google will look even sillier than before, because they can now build so much faster and with so much less constraints.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentx.com 10th of 15 in this piece
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Their wordsThere's no proof that "good code" will matter in the future. The notion of "good code" itself is mostly based on the idea that it's easy/cheap/efficient for humans to work with. But humans won't modify the majority of code.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentx.com 11th of 15 in this piece
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Their wordsYes. Some people will be priced out of producing software. Just like only some people could afford a personal computer in the 80s and 90s, for the next few years, if you can't get enough tokens, you're playing second league.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentx.com 12th of 15 in this piece
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Their wordsAnd what we consider a smart model today will be considered very dumb in the future. But a smarter model makes less mistakes, needs fewer turns.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentx.com 13th of 15 in this piece
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Their wordsA lot of UI exists because software can't understand what you want. Menus, settings screens, dashboards, filters: much of it is a human-accessible API to a dumb machine. Smart machines need much less UI.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentx.com 14th of 15 in this piece
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Their wordsIt'll take a generation for the "new software" to replace the "old software". Just like there are people happily employed as ASP developers today, there will be people employed to write code in 10 years.
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