Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt declared traditional coding is obsolete, urging developers to stop writing code manually. If you're writing code traditionally, stop, he said, explaining that top engineers now manage AI systems like Claude and Gemini. This profound shift has led Schmidt to feel a personal sense of mourning…
Calculators’ whole deal is that they give consistent, predictable results and can be relied on. And there was never a calculator bubble resting on the premise that they’d make engineers obsolete.
The professional programmers I know all agree that correcting all the accumulated slop code will, in its own right, create demand for human engineers for a long time to come. But firms are going to have to scrounge for the capital to rehire the laid-off engineers, because they aren’t getting back the capital they sunk into corporate LLM subscriptions.
Itt: my math teacher complaining about calculators.
I don’t like where the world is headed either. But it’s going to go there regardless of us.
Calculators’ whole deal is that they give consistent, predictable results and can be relied on. And there was never a calculator bubble resting on the premise that they’d make engineers obsolete.
The professional programmers I know all agree that correcting all the accumulated slop code will, in its own right, create demand for human engineers for a long time to come. But firms are going to have to scrounge for the capital to rehire the laid-off engineers, because they aren’t getting back the capital they sunk into corporate LLM subscriptions.