“Software engineering is dead.”
This is what I hear everyday.
As someone who became somehow good in programming business around the corner of 2022 hearing these words constantly honestly it brought traces of disappointment in me (what was I excited about!!).
The hype is so strong making you feel like it’s the end of the world. And of course you can feel this looking at how AI keep getting better everyday.
I tried to write my take on AI before, but I have found something else which needs to be addressed:
The stories around AI are telling you to pack your things and find something else to do as everything will be replaced by AI.
It’s like we are told you don’t have to think about coming up with things anymore, AI will come up with them and create everything. We see countless showoffs on the internet of what people have made in a day. It’s sooo over.
We are forced to see there is no need to create software anymore.
I accept AI is so good in its own ways, but I had questions which stopped me to think again about the “give up” direction we are told to take:
Will AI replace WhatsApp, Google search, Substack so easily?
Our lives in 21st century is running on software; don’t we need software anymore?
If we pack our bags and go who will prompt the AI to generate software?
These questions made me to question the narration we receive everyday about AI.
There is something missing in this story:
AI won’t use itself. People use it, we need human brains to steer it.
“Everything is so over” is a misguiding narration. People should stop these marketing hyped stories otherwise all of us will be over:
-You can’t make AI make what you “really” want. If there is no one to force it, we will all be eating slops we don’t want.
-AI can’t replace WhatsApp, Substack or other major platforms. Think about that again, brain power is needed.
-AI is smart after using data from the past. We need new data from the future to keep it smart and who supplies that?
If you push fear to young talents who are into software, we won’t get the data needed to train AI on for it to continue creating great stuff. We won’t get people who are strong to come up with new revolutionary ways which AI can’t even touch the surface.
AI is a new tool. It’s not great in everything, but as a tool we should find out how we can use it to our advantage.
This is the story which should be emphasized more.