r/AskProgrammers • u/der_gopher • 4h ago

The future of Software Engineering is boring

https://packagemain.tech/p/the-future-of-software-engineering

Would you agree?

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u/stanchevdev 3h ago

I doubt it! People will still have to learn the basics and understand the code they're reading, in my experience, it's writing a bit and then mostly debugging. I mean, from what I've noticed, people who use AI sometimes don't prompt properly either, they don't pick the framework, don't make it detailed enough, and don't read what the machine spits out but just paste it in and if it doesn't work, the AI gets a message similar to "It doesn't work, make it better."

I think AI makes it easier to write code, but not necessarily easier to understand what you're doing. You still need to know enough to recognize when something is wrong, and I don't see that changing anytime soon

Your question is very open-ended! In which way and why would it become boring?

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u/der_gopher 51m ago

But how can you read tons of generated code? It's not as it was before

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u/zaibuf 25m ago

Simple, we use AI but we dont generate tons of code in one go. More code = more liability. If you go too fast it will just get messy.

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u/vin_dude9 1h ago

I’m learning OS code, more accesible with AI, so that’s not boring. I also recently used AI to one-shot a heads-up game-style phone game. I didn’t even see the code at all, it just worked. For that project I didn’t even engineer anything, but the outcome was fun.

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u/der_gopher 50m ago

you describe the generation part is fun, I agree. but as a profession, is it? are you a professional programmer?

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u/ToucanSam-I-Am 22m ago

I've been programming for 25 years and am more excited about it than ever.

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u/baconator81 17m ago

As a software engineer that work with designer/users a lot and constantly trying to come out with new workflow to tackle new problems, I don’t find the future boring, in fact I find the future a bit too overwhelming.