I keep hearing about how AI is going to replace developers, I can’t see it but if it did would it stop progress?
This is my little theory, I work with data so this is data tooling focused but could equally apply to any new technology like rust vs c!
If we had the LLM’s ten years ago and startups created to replace software devs with low code solutions then the AI tools would have been automating Hadoop and Map Reduce and there would have been no reason to invent Spark.
My reasoning being that new AI can learn how to use our existing tools but I don’t believe they will create new tools?
Will AI create new tools or will we be stuck with the current generation of tools forever?
Thought experiment : If humans stop to create/innovate and delegate everything to AI, AI will be left with no more training data except than the one it itself created (+ all digitalized data created from humans before they stopped). Which will be condensed in statistical weights, again and again. Over the years, no more innovation, just tuning a statistical model, and humans hoping for something new and unseen that works, because AI has all knowledge.
I just hope humanity won't end up like this.