My background is now exactly 20 years full time programming. I'm currently a senior developer on a good income.
And I am posting this to tell of the change.
The latest ai model, claude sonnet 4, plus visual studio code agent mode. Has made software developers obsolete.
It can code more in an hour than i can in a week. Trust me, i did not want this to be true. It aggrieved me to see years of study so casually outshone.
What does the future hold? Developers will migrate into "AI editors " roles or be sacked. Running multiple AI at once. Relegated to system architects and supervisors.
So seniors like me are in a good place. Intermediates and juniors are fucked.
My prediction is that we will witness many thousands of developers laid off. 1 senior will do the work of an entire team.
The market will get flooded with new saas built in weeks as opposed to years it took competitors.
I have begun my transistion from the dead industry to the new. I recommend all fellow upgoat devs start immediately to do the same.
I'm a shitty programmer. Like on a scale of 1 to 10, like a 2... HTML, some JavaScript and that is it.
Started doing VR development and need to know C#. Can't do crap in VR dev without knowing how to write c#.
Started with chatgtp coding. Tt was shyt. Lots of hallucinations that befuddled me since I don't know what I am looking at.
Switch over to claude with sonnet 3.7 (free layer) and bang. Two, one shot fixes within hours and now I learned to run multiple chats and cut and paste results between them and can get fixes for just about anything I need, up to high-midlevel stuff.
I haven't even gotten to sonnet 4.0 yet. I've learned to write really good use cases and functional specs and just feed it into the machine.
By the time sonnet 7 hits, even experienced high level programmers are out of a job.
Programmers are doomed. Well, we all are now that Plantier is up and running... Wait till that thing starts parsing through our lives in minute detail at the speed of light.
Edit: Got access to the Meta lambda for coding. It works really well as well.
glooper 1 points 7 hours ago
I hear ya.
I'm a shitty programmer. Like on a scale of 1 to 10, like a 2... HTML, some JavaScript and that is it.
Started doing VR development and need to know C#. Can't do crap in VR dev without knowing how to write c#.
Started with chatgtp coding. Tt was shyt. Lots of hallucinations that befuddled me since I don't know what I am looking at.
Switch over to claude with sonnet 3.7 (free layer) and bang. Two, one shot fixes within hours and now I learned to run multiple chats and cut and paste results between them and can get fixes for just about anything I need, up to high-midlevel stuff.
I haven't even gotten to sonnet 4.0 yet. I've learned to write really good use cases and functional specs and just feed it into the machine.
By the time sonnet 7 hits, even experienced high level programmers are out of a job.
Programmers are doomed. Well, we all are now that Plantier is up and running... Wait till that thing starts parsing through our lives in minute detail at the speed of light.
Edit: Got access to the Meta lambda for coding. It works really well as well.