About how AI is changing software development and which jobs will survive.
Has this happened?
Yes 62 (50%)Not sure 34 (27%)No 29 (23%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About how AI is changing software development and which jobs will survive.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
One of the things I learned after starting using AI - (can anyone give information WTF are coding agents Google is flooded by info presented by cryptobros btw) is that I have really hated the whole typist part of the development. To the point where I prefer to make 2 prompts to the AI instead of modifying something myself even though it will take comparable time.
Anyway the way it is going I was convinced that the oldest profession will be the only left standing when the AI runs its course in couple of decades. Now I am not sure even in its survival.
Edit: We will know we are in the endgame when AI can reverse engineer a piece of software just by observing it's inputs and outputs. Like a game. Or crack Denuvo