The Real Future of AI and Developers
When to worry about AI and our jobs.
AI is going insane these days, and programmers all over the world are extremely worried about their future, as the AI will replace their jobs and make them homeless.
I personally don’t like to waste my time discussing this topic, but the demand was massively high, so I wanted to write about our future.
“Who the hell on planet Earth are you to write about our future? None knows about the future, so you better keep your mouth zipped and don’t waste my time reading this!” you might say in response.
Guess what? I can predict your future from your current state and what you’re capable of right now. If you’re healthy and you’re eating healthy, there’s no doubt that you’ll live tomorrow as well. The same is true for predicting the future of AI.
Your past creates your present, and your present creates your future.
Let’s first travel to the past. When I started coding, I got obsessed with it and learned HTML and CSS to build some cool webpages. I’ll never forget when I spent about a week building a static webpage using HTML and CSS for our school. I proudly told the school office that I’d built a webpage for our school and wanted to give it to them for free.
“We’ve already built one,” they replied. I said, “How did you do it?” as there was no one else who knew how to code except me. “Everyone can do that by using this tool online,” they replied while showing me the newly-trending “no-code” tool at that time, where individuals can build a website of their need by dragging and dropping already-made components with ease.
They took a look at the webpage I had built and compared it to the website they’d built using a no-code tool. “Let’s be frank here, Halim, if you were in my place, would you choose your webpage over the one we’ve built?” They asked me, pointing at the website they had built using the no-code tool. “Absolutely not; it’s way, way more better than mine.” I answered.
The heartbreaking part was that they ignored my 2-week hardship, even for free! The wrecking part was that they had built a 10x better website in only a single day compared to mine by spending 2 weeks on it, and it still looked like comparing a donkey with a horse.
I wanted to leave coding for good due to that tool; it could do better than me in less time, so why would a stupid one hire me to build them webpages if they have that tool?
Fortunately, I was born passionate about coding and enjoyed nothing but coding, so I just continued like a complete bonehead. After a while, as I was stepping into more complex and advanced stuff, I realized that I can do better than those “no-code” tools. I could build a completely customized webapp that could do whatever I wanted it to do, but those (no-code) tools are limited and can only satisfy small, naive businesses.
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The same time is back again, and as we all are experiencing right now, AI has come so far that it can do anything. This really made the developer community commit suicide by worrying so much (just kidding — only worry) thinking that AI will replace them and they’ll become useless. It’s so silly to think that way. Just by creating a to-do list app, no one can become a software engineer; it evolves other profound skills that AI will never, in its earthly life, be able to reach that stage.
When Tractors came up, farmers didn’t fade into oblivion, or did they?
A Tractor without a farmer is inert and useless. Let’s not be completely pessimistic. Tractors helped the farmers stay super-productive and used them instead of 10 other farmers. A single farmer with a Tractor could do more compared to 10 other farmers without a Tractor. As a result, Tractors became a useful and common tool for farmers, and now you won’t see a rich farmer without a Tractor.
Same thing here: AI is a superpower that, by leveraging, you can produce 10 more developers and be productive 10x more than a usual developer.
Conclusion
In the age of slavery, everyone was trying to work harder than a donkey and be a good slave; in the age of machinery, everyone was trying to know how machines work to get hired; and in the age of AI, everyone must learn how to leverage AI.
In the near future, AI won’t replace all the software engineers, except those who don’t know how to leverage AI.
You can either get left behind in the dust or adapt and dominate 10 other average developers.
So… LEARN HOW TO USE AI, or you’ll be passé. Time has changed!
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