Replacing Developers With an App: 'But It Might Work for Us'

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A four-panel meme in 'The Other Guys' couple-conversation format, with the man's face covered by an orange Claude-style starburst logo and OpenAI logos pasted over the woman's position. Panel 1 (man): 'MANY COMPANIES TRIED TO REPLACE DEVELOPERS WITH AN APP BEFORE:' Panel 1 continued: 'FRONTPAGE, DREAMWEAVER, DRUPAL, WORDPRESS, SQUARESPACE...' Panel 2 (OpenAI logo speaking): 'WELL DID IT WORK FOR THOSE COMPANIES?' Panel 3 (man): 'NO, IT NEVER DOES. THEY SOMEHOW DELUDE THEMSELVES INTO THINKING IT MIGHT, BUT...' Panel 4 (OpenAI logo): '...BUT IT MIGHT WORK FOR US.' An imgflip.com watermark appears bottom-left. The meme maps the famous 'it might work for us' pyramid-scheme dialogue onto AI companies believing LLMs will finally succeed at replacing developers where decades of no-code and site-builder tools (FrontPage, Dreamweaver, Drupal, WordPress, Squarespace) failed

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Every decade a new tool promises to eliminate developers, and every decade it instead creates a new specialty: someone has to maintain what the tool generated

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Every decade a new tool promises to eliminate developers, and every decade it instead creates a new specialty: someone has to maintain what the tool generated
Anonymous

The developer-replacement roadmap has been one quarter from GA since FrontPage.
@kuybida_daniel 2mo

Why not? Software engineering has already changed significantly and not in a better direction. When did you use stack overflow last time? Or read some lib documentation? Or write code without cloud? And it consumed actually 90% of working time before
1. @Algoinde 2mo
  
  today, today and today
2. @tema3210 2mo
  
  Documentation is still required. Coding is rarely required, but when it is - gl hf. Architecture never ceased to be required... So better tools, but no substantial improvement
  
  @kuybida_daniel 2mo
  
  I probably read some library documentation 2 years ago last time. And architecture design will probably survive, yes, but only a small portion of engineers need to think about architecture, it's usually a work for tech leads. While small architectural decisions can be made by AI too
3. @ArtemVoikov 2mo
  
  or when did you use a rubber duck for debugging last time? 😅
4. @azizhakberdiev 2mo
  
  I read documentations older than myself a lot
  
  Егор 2mo
  
  «give me a tldr summary focusing on …»
5. @ZmEYkA_3310 2mo
  
  Rust docs 😎
Егор 2mo

People need some time to adapt to new reality. Also, the ones who have adaptation problems, will not get their productivity boost - and will lose the job.
Егор 2mo

But the real massacre will begin when clients realize that all the estimates were based on human-only work, while in reality most of the work is already being done in a human-in-the-AI-loop paradigm.
@ZmEYkA_3310 2mo

Theyre good
@Topseader 2mo

Wordpress is still alive.. Am I out of touch?