There will be a generation who grow up with AI who don't know how to solve puzzles other than AI told them the answer. They will fill up the SW developer bucket quite quickly so that those who recall the pre-AI days will be vastly outnumbered. It feels bad now but it only going to get worse.
SW development skills are changing. The sheer amount and volume of AI code means eventually just accepting what it churns out and hope for the best. That's the direction it is going to converge to.
From my recent experience, I think it is the exact opposite of where we should go for.
We have essentially two kinds of meetings:
- daily meetings, scheduled, 30 minutes, with a timer, overruns happen, but rarely, and not by a lot.
- unscheduled meetings, often more than 1 hour, sometime massive overruns
The latter are by far the more useful ones, and because they are infrequent, take less time overall.
The problem with the daily meetings is that they degenerate into everyone taking turns saying what they are doing, who cares except for the manager? And we have Jira, everything is there. Sometime there is something interesting: maybe someone found something to save everyone's time, maybe a strange bug that need some collective mind to figure out, or a breaking change people need to be aware of. But these report are often cut off by "let's move on, we will talk about it later (maybe)", which mean either another meeting, or people missing information.
The unscheduled meeting however usually have a clear goal, and a solution has to come out of it. Cutting the meeting short without a solution loses the entire point, so overruns are common, but in the end, we have something meaningful.
They are doing a very sensible approach of not trying to be the top AI researchers around, and either hiring or using commodity stuff on their products trying to find an application.
That's what basically all big techs should have done. And Oracle too.
Again, I have no idea if they found any good use for it on their applications, but they are the only one integrating it right.
Of course not :D
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