The tl;dr of it is no. At least not yet. As more and more people use artificial intelligent agents to help write code we’re learning that AI is not quite all there yet. Take this article from CIO magazine Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants
It appears that there is still a lot of need for people who know how to code to do debugging and tuning or AI generated code.
My former students who are developers tell me that they are using AI quite a bit. And they say it helps them. No one has said they have been replaced by AI yet. Frankly, I don’t see that coming anytime soon.
A professor from a major university told me about a study where students were asked to write secure code. Half were told to do it on their own while half were told they could use AI. The students without AI wrote more secure and less buggy code.
More research needs to be done and we can argue over research methods as well. But I think that the jury is still out on AI. Will it get better? Probably. Will AI reduce the need for human programmers? I don’t think we have that answer yet. For the time being though we’re going to need actual people involved in the software development arena.
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