Should software engineers be worried about their jobs?

Arslan Ahmad

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AI technology advancements in software development have raised concerns among aspiring programmers about job replacement. This post explores the possibilities of AI taking over software development and the necessary skills and focus for developers in the future.

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I can no longer understand this panic. Why are so many developers afraid of being replaced by AI? Yes, AI will replace certain people and take over certain tasks. But I don’t think AI will be able to create complex software that quickly. Especially: With any AI, it ultimately depends on the input. So a question from me to you:
How many of you think that a non-IT person will be able to develop good to very good software with the help of AI? Personally, I think that maybe 1 in 1000 will succeed. And then that is probably more of a coincidence than a skill.
Well, I am sure that in a relatively short period of time, AI will be able to develop static websites that are indeed impressive. But I think it is very unlikely that an AI will develop complete software. At least not this year or next year.
You probably could say that AI will replace Developers by slightly forcing them to become a Devailoper 😉

Really guys, r we gonna dwell on this forever?
AI will not take your jobs. Y’all need to understand that it COMPLIMENTS what u do, it won’t replace you in the job market. Take for example frontend, no way can be as creative as a human. Plus is AI really that good at debugging (no it’s not)
Anyways, AI should be a very helpful tool, just specialize in an area and make AI ur assistant, easy.

I have one simple question regarding this . If ai is going to replace humans in job field than what about the economy and the consumer based companies. There are thousands of businesses that are consumer based . If ai is going to take jobs away than we will have less money to spend and we will only spend it on buying necessities like food, house ,cloth electricity and probably internet as many countries have high internet charges too . If we can’t buy how will the consumer based companies thrive . They need us to buy their product and for that we need money and for that we need job and this keeps the economy stable.
Now imagine we are jobless and ai is doing maximum work than how will we make money . And if we can’t than won’t that create chaos in many countries where there is already poverty. So economic crisis can happen with this and it will harm most of these ai making companies too . So I think there will be ai but it will never replace us and we will have to coexist where ai will mostly do the repetitive work and we humans will handle the work that needs brain and emotions

Ai can’t be smarter than humans so don’t worry developers