In two years, programmers will be redundant. At least in their current form
For the average Joe, all this AI means singing kittens and writing theses with Chat GPT. Meanwhile, in large corporations, these are savings reaching hundreds of millions of dollars. 4,500 years of programmers’ work replaced by a program? That sounds proud.
Programmers helped themselves first, then the rest of the world
On Thursday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy boasted on Twitter that using Amazon Q to update Java has already allowed Amazon to save on work that would normally take 4,500 years of programmers’ work. Yes, this number is crazy but true — says Jassy proudly.
In two years, programmers will probably stop coding altogether
In an informal fireside chat reported by Business Insider, Amazon Web Services CEO Marr Garman predicted a paradigm shift in coding as a profession.
If we look ahead 24 months, or some period of time — I can’t predict exactly when — it’s possible that most developers won’t be coding anymore.
– said Marr Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services, in a leaked recording
Even now, however, the work of a programmer is a completely different piece of bread than it used to be. Thanks to using Amazon Q, Amazon has achieved $260 million in annual savings resulting from improved security and reduced infrastructure costs. The effectiveness of automatically generated code is also spectacular.
Our developers implemented 79% of auto-generated code reviews without any additional changes. This is a great example of how large enterprises can achieve significant efficiencies in basic software hygiene work using Amazon Q.
– points Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon
As Jassy adds today, Developers can save months by using Q to move from older versions of Java to newer onesmore secure and efficient. Amazon Q will soon also allow for transformations in .net code.
