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The Future of Coding Is... Not Coding?
Microsoft engineer says “typing code is absolutely over”
David Fowler, a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, says manual code typing is basically over.
Microsoft is already moving toward this with AI agents handling more of the actual coding while developers focus on architecture, reviewing changes, debugging and telling the agents what to do.
I'm curious what everyone here thinks.
Are we actually moving toward a world where developers mostly stop writing code themselves, or is this just another form of higher-level programming?
Personally, I still don't trust AI enough to let it build everything without checking every damn thing it does.
actually dy
- AI will write most of it28 votes
- AI + humans, both64.29%
- Nah, it's just another tool21.43%
- AI code is still shit14.29%
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Gotta have humans
i heard a guy named @wadhah in other thread is already building windows 11 competitor this way:
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/220860/i-ran-out-of-tokens-so-i-tried-writing-my-own-code-but-its-not-working-help
they're clearly onto something
How long have they been saying this now? Now look at the quality of Windows and Azure over the past year, then back to me.
Ha, windows has been on decline since Vista
That's what she said, AGI was yesterday.
LLM's usually overshoot your objective, they tend to add a lot of shit you didn't ask for, which you have to clean up, otherwise you end up like microslop.
Its a useful tool, especially in planing or getting suggestions to solve problems or solve smol tasks.
You can't trust that shit, to vibe code your app entirely.
None of those public statements are worthy of a discussion, it's all just PR speak to further fuel the AI frenzy... a lot of those long term higher level employees have a large amount of stock and benefit from whatever fuel they can add to the fire.
Oh shit, I'm busy building Glass 4000, a windows competitor...
Things that used to take me a long time to build can now be completed much faster with AI.
I used to make coding mistakes that caused bugs, while AI often produces cleaner and more complete code.
Now, my main role is to guide the overall direction, supervise the build, and ask AI to refine and adjust the details.
AI does not always consider every angle, which may depend on the context it has. Human judgment is still important for direction, review, and final decisions.
AI/LLM is more like a tool then a chatbot for me. could be useful but code can be a hit or miss
in 3-5 years, i think YES
Yolo it like a baus!