alt Hacker NewsI suspect that lots of developers who are sour on relying on AI significantly _would_ agree with most of this, but see the result of that logic leading to (as the article notes) "the skill of writing and reading code is obsolete, and it's our job to make software engineering increasingly entirely automated" and really don't like that outcome so they try to find a way to reject it.
"The skillset you've spend decades developing and expected to continue having a career selling? The parts of it that aren't high level product management and systems architecture are quickly becoming irrelevant, and it's your job to speed that process along" isn't an easy pill to swallow.
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> "the skill of writing and reading code is obsolete, and it's our job to make software engineering increasingly entirely automated"
This simply is a mediocre take, sometimes I feel like people never actually coded at all to have such opinions
> The parts of it that aren't high level product management and systems architecture are quickly becoming irrelevant
Embedded in this, is the assumption that many SWEs can actually do those roles better than existing specialists.
If they can't - end of the line
Remains to be seen if that pill needs swallowing at all. At least for reading code.
I actually don't think they would agree with most of this. Why would you think that?
You are essentially making a character attack on anyone who disagrees with this article. You dismiss outright reasonable objections you have not heard and instead you presume fear and loathing are the only possible motivations to disagree.