About a prediction of when software development jobs will be automated.
Has this happened?
Yes 87 (71%)Not sure 10 (8%)No 26 (21%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About a prediction of when software development jobs will be automated.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Any decent developer will use existing libraries and tools for common tasks, so 90% of the code is already written. The remaining 10% of the code is business and use case specifics that change frequently and is made by pulling the pieces provided by libraries together. The ai assisted auto complete will likely never be able to understand use cases, for that it would need sentience - and even humans fail at understanding what non techies want in their apps. As others pointed out such ai tools reduce the time taken to google something, so its more like a built in code search engine and very good at it. Other than that all the “software jobs automation” stories such as this article are written to impress either non techies or gullible newbies. A waste of content, scifi at best.