Generative AI Is Not Going To Build Your Engineering Team For You – Stack Overflow
June 12, 2024
People act like writing code is the hard part of software. It is not. It never has been, it never will be. Writing code is the easiest part of software engineering, and it’s getting easier by the day. The hard parts are what you do with that code—operating it, understanding it, extending it, and governing it over its entire lifecycle.
Source: Generative AI Is Not Going To Build Your Engineering Team For You – Stack Overflow
Right now so much of the focus on generative AI is on what (we think) it can do right now. The immediate outcomes–write copy, code, generate images.
We tend too to see the product, the artefact as the whole focus of work, and overlook, devalue, ignore the processes, systems, deep knowledge that enables the work to be done.
Here Charity Majors considers the deeper impact generative AI may have on the development of software, and on the profession of software development.
