Article for The New Stack by Darryl Taft
Up until 2023, for the entire history of digital computing, the core activity of programming has been a human being writing lines of code. Some AI tools had come along to augment this capability, but human coding has always been at the center.
That’s changed, Jason Bloomberg, an analyst at Intellyx, told The New Stack via email. “Today, the central programming activity moving forward is having AI (generative AI and neural networks, primarily) create the applications,” he said. “Instead of coding, humans create and manage the models and the data sets that train the AI.”
Hand coding still takes place, of course — but Bloomberg said he believes it has moved into a secondary position. “Any organization, vendor or enterprise, who doesn’t realize this point is doomed to becoming less competitive and eventually irrelevant,” he said.
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