At my job, we use a lot of AI to literally move fast and break things when working on internal tools. The idea is that the surface area is low, rollbacks are fast, and the upside is a lot better than the downside (our end users get a better experience to help them do their job better).
But our bottleneck is still requirements for the project. We routinely run out of stuff to do and have to ask for new stuff or work on a different project.
But you're absolutely right. Most people (programmers, managers, etc) don't know exactly what problems need to be solved, or at least, struggle to communicate it adequately for it to be implemented well enough. They say they want X. But they haven't thought about the repercussions of it, or that it requires Y first. AI might be able to help there, but it will give a totally bogus answer if it does not have any context of the domain, which is almost never documented in code.
These are still very much so technical roles, but maybe we are becoming more "technical domain experts."
At my job, we use a lot of AI to literally move fast and break things when working on internal tools. The idea is that the surface area is low, rollbacks are fast, and the upside is a lot better than the downside (our end users get a better experience to help them do their job better).
But our bottleneck is still requirements for the project. We routinely run out of stuff to do and have to ask for new stuff or work on a different project.
But you're absolutely right. Most people (programmers, managers, etc) don't know exactly what problems need to be solved, or at least, struggle to communicate it adequately for it to be implemented well enough. They say they want X. But they haven't thought about the repercussions of it, or that it requires Y first. AI might be able to help there, but it will give a totally bogus answer if it does not have any context of the domain, which is almost never documented in code.
These are still very much so technical roles, but maybe we are becoming more "technical domain experts."