It's a good overview, but I think there's one important aspect that's not discussed.
We're looking at AI competing with the jobs that programmers do today, but it's likely that these new AI tools will change software itself.
I mean, why have a complicated UI with design/validation/etc when you can just tell your phone you want a plane ticket to Paris tomorrow ?
I'm just going to guesstimate that at least half of the apps we use today can be done without a UI or with a very different type of UI+natural language.
Add AI agents that are fine tuned on all your personal data in real time (eg. photos you take, messages you send, etc) which will end up knowing you better than your mom. In a company setting, the AI will know all your JIRA tickets and Slack/Teams conversations, e-mails and so on.
On the backend, instead of API endpoints, you'll have just one - where the AI asks you for data piece by piece, while the client AI provides it. No need to program this, the AIs can just figure it out by themselves.
Definitely interesting times, but change is coming fast.
This is similar to my thoughts, “code” is for humans. AI does need a game engine or massive software, some future video game just needs to output the next frame and respond to input. Little to no code required.
Underrated comment! I agree, it's like the LLM becomes all of the logic, all of the code. I guess that's less computationally efficient though for some simple things.. for now!
This indeed may be the future, and I'll probably be a grumpy old man complaining about it. What was once a form will be replaced by a system needing to connect to a server running a 1T parameter model requiring specialized hardware and using 1e6 times the power.
That got me thinking that these things will be able to first learn and then write the optimised code to avoid the energy usage. Think 'muscle memory' but for AI interacting with external world (or another AI)...
I believe this is where we’re headed. AI replacing much of the software itself. You don’t need a website to manage your rental properties, another one for ordering food, etc.
However it’s not as imminent as “just fine tune it on personal data”.
We're looking at AI competing with the jobs that programmers do today, but it's likely that these new AI tools will change software itself.
I mean, why have a complicated UI with design/validation/etc when you can just tell your phone you want a plane ticket to Paris tomorrow ? I'm just going to guesstimate that at least half of the apps we use today can be done without a UI or with a very different type of UI+natural language.
Add AI agents that are fine tuned on all your personal data in real time (eg. photos you take, messages you send, etc) which will end up knowing you better than your mom. In a company setting, the AI will know all your JIRA tickets and Slack/Teams conversations, e-mails and so on.
On the backend, instead of API endpoints, you'll have just one - where the AI asks you for data piece by piece, while the client AI provides it. No need to program this, the AIs can just figure it out by themselves.
Definitely interesting times, but change is coming fast.