Matt Garman sees a shift in software development as AI automates coding, telling staff to enhance product-management skills to stay competitive.

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    Fucking hell, 80% of my job is finding out what the requirements are. 20% is then using a specialized language to write down all these requirements and the thousands of decisions I make on how to meet them.

    If AI somehow replaces those 20% coding,

    • I still have to do 80% of my job, and
    • I still have to tell the AI all this shit, just this time in natural language, which is awful for codifying requirements.

    How is this guy a manager, but has no idea what a software engineer does all day?

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      This is why engineering managers need to come from engineering. If they couldn’t help out in the codebase in an emergency situation, they shouldn’t be making decisions like this. It’s not unreasonable for ELT to ask questions about this but if their reporters are not telling them the truth, the whole structure is broken.

      • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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        But without ignorant, self-congratulating MBAs to artificially reduce productivity to maintain the illusion of constant growth, companies would make safer products with greater care and understanding of the entire process holistically, and you can’t pay your shareholders in understanding.

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      Why maintain code? Just describe the program you want in a query and then every time it might need maintenance, you just tell it to generate anew.

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        You can add “Don’t have bugs” to the prompt to ensure the application continues to run smoothly.

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      Oh most definitely GROK™ as our Lord and saviour the Humble master of the greatest vehicle on the planet and in space Eron Musky will have it done by the end of the year!!!

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    In a leaked recording, Amazon cloud chief admits he doesn’t understand software development, also doesn’t understand the current AI offerings’ capabilities, and just wants the Amazon stock price to rise so he can buy a bigger boat.