This is basically a thing now with how good transcription become, it's wonderful

And then use AI to take some bullet points and turn them into a well formatted response.

I am waiting... with bated breath.

Nah, it will create more meetings to keep the humans out of the way.

That's when AI crashes because the secret cabal of middle management will direct their brainwashed execs to divest. ^/s^

The bosses will figure it out when they never receive a working product.

They tried it with offshoring and those bosses are now out of work.

Question is: how many developers are actually good? Or better, how many produce good results? I wouldn't call myself a great programmer, just okayish, but I certainly pushed code I knew was absolute garbage, simply because of external pressure (deadlines, legacy crap, maybe just a bad day,...).

I'm more of a mechanical engineer than a coder, and for me it's been super helpful writing the code. The rest of our repo is clear enough that even I can understand what it actually does by just reading it. What I'm unfamiliar with are the syntax, and which nifty things our libraries can do.

So if you kinda understand programs but barely know the language, then it's awesome. The actual good programmers at my company prefer a minimal working example to fix over a written feature request. Then they replace my crap with something more elegant.

That sounds awful. Imaging going back and forth requesting changes until it gets it right. It'd be like chatting with openai only it's trying to merge that crap into your repo.

Where I'm really not sure is, what percentage of the software written today actually needs human work?

I mean, think about all the basic form rendering, inputs masks, CRUD apps. There's definitely a ton of work in them and they're widely used, but I'm pretty sure that a relatively basic AI-assisted framework could recreate most of these apps with hardly any actual coding. Sure, it won't be super efficient or elegant, but let's be honest: nobody cares about that, if they're good enough.

Just look at Wix, Wordpress, Squarespace etc. Website builders basically imploded the "low effort" web design market. Who would pay hundreds for a website made by a human, if you can just click together something reasonably good looking in 2h?