Hi, this is a question that popped into my mind when i saw an article about some AWS engineer talking about ai assistants taking over the job of programmers, this reminded me that it’s not the first time that something like this was said.

My software engineering teacher once told me that a few years ago people believed graphical tools like enterprise architect would make it so that a single engineer could just draw a pretty UML diagram and generate 90% of the project without touching any code,
And further back COBOL was supposed to replace programmers by letting accountants write their own programs.

Now i’m curious, were there many other technologies that were supposedly going to replace programmers that you remember?

i hope someone that’s been around much more than me knows something more or has some funny stories to share

  • @SzethFriendOfNimi
    16•3 months ago

    Besides. Somebody has to convert customer needs into the diagram. Account for what they’re not saying, etc.

    That’s the real essential skill in software dev, not spitting out lines of code.

    • @MrPoopyButtholeEnglish
      10•3 months ago

      Yup. Business logic for things that cost millions or billions should not be run by an approximation machine.