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Ask HN: Will software jobs change if AI gets better

2 pointsby sarthakjainover 8 years ago
If AI does live up to the promise what do you think will be the change in your job. How will AI augment what you do on a daily basis to make you more efficient or change the nature of your work?

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webmavenover 8 years ago
TL&#x2F;DR: Yes.<p>There will be several broad categories of change:<p>1. More software will become AI-powered, narrowing the domains where a human has to write code (counterbalanced by the continuing explosion of the variety of places that you <i>can</i> write code).<p>2. Better and smarter tools: IDEs that can see when you&#x27;re coding Java in Python and can suggest a more idiomatic alternative, debuggers that understand off-by-one errors, up to and including AI pair-programming.<p>3. More expressive high-level programming languages (including ones not based on English-like syntax) with implementations (whether interpreters or compilers) that may not be entirely comprehensible to a human.<p>4. AI workloads continue to push chip architectures toward more cores, and parallelism-related skills become more important.<p>5. AI-driven IC design may restart Moore&#x27;s Law in earnest.<p>6. Better machine translation further levels the global playing field.