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

Software engineers may have to develop other skills soon as artificial intelligence takes over many coding tasks.

That’s according to Amazon Web Services’ CEO, Matt Garman, who shared his thoughts on the topic during an internal fireside chat held in June, according to a recording of the meeting obtained by Business Insider.

“If you go forward 24 months from now, or some amount of time — I can’t exactly predict where it is — it’s possible that most developers are not coding,” said Garman, who became AWS’s CEO in June.

“Coding is just kind of like the language that we talk to computers. It’s not necessarily the skill in and of itself,” the executive said. “The skill in and of itself is like, how do I innovate? How do I go build something that’s interesting for my end users to use?”

This means the job of a software developer will change, Garman said.

“It just means that each of us has to get more in tune with what our customers need and what the actual end thing is that we’re going to try to go build, because that’s going to be more and more of what the work is as opposed to sitting down and actually writing code,” he said.

  • Nougat@fedia.ioM
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    27 days ago

    But a lot of nuance is lost in translation, …

    And as black box machine learning ability to take what we say to be closer to what we mean gets better, we eventually just end up with … a software developer.

    Even at that point, who does he think is going to explain to the AI software developer what is actually needed? Him? He doesn’t know how to do that any better than he already does to human software developers.

    Edit: OMG I just read this part:

    “It just means that each of us has to get more in tune with what our customers need and what the actual end thing is that we’re going to try to go build, because that’s going to be more and more of what the work is as opposed to sitting down and actually writing code,” he said.

    You idiot. Do you think devs want to have to redo their work five times before the client is satisfied? If you’re not already “more in tune with what our customers need and what the actual end thing is that we’re going to try to go build,” fuck man, just do that. You can do that right now, you walnut.