Coders and other technicians have been worried that AI would uproot their job security and will be replaced soon. These worries were recently confirmed yet again after a recording of Amazon’s Cloud CEO was leaked, who admits that coders will be out of a job because AI will replace them.
Business Insider obtained an audio recording of the new Amazon Web Services’ CEO Matt Garman, where he said in June coders would be displaced by AI.
Matt Garman, CEO of AWS. Courtesy: Amazon
He said:
If you go forward 24 months from now, or some amount of time — I can’t exactly predict where it is — it’s possible that most developers are not coding.
Coding is just kind of like the language that we talk to computers. It’s not necessarily the skill in and of itself. The skill in and of itself is like, how do I innovate? How do I go build something that’s interesting for my end users to use?
It just means that each of us has to get more in tune with what our customers need and what the actual end thing is that we’re going to try to go build, because that’s going to be more and more of what the work is as opposed to sitting down and actually writing code.
‘An AWS spokesperson, Aisha Johnson, told BI that Garman’s comments conveyed opportunities for developers to “accomplish more than they do today” with new AI tools. She added that there was no indication he expected a decline in the role of developers,’ BI noted.
Matt articulated a vision for how AWS will continue to remove undifferentiated heavy lifting from the developer experience so that builders can focus more of their skills and energy on the most innovative work.
Entrepreneurnoted that ‘AWS currently has about 130,000 employees, having laid off several hundred people in April in its sales, marketing, and global services divisions.’
Marco Argenti, the CIO of Goldman Sachs, provided an identical sentiment in April, who said technical skills by themselves are not enough to handle AI. He encourages future engineers to study philosophy along with engineering. ‘Philosophy would give engineers the reasoning abilities and mental framework to keep up with AI, detect hallucinations, and challenge its output, according to Argenti,’ the business paper added.
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Garman is only saying what we already know and have already been reporting here on The WP. Pretty much all corporate and “white-collar” jobs are on the chopping block because of AI. Coding, graphic design, marketing, communications, etc. are the first immediate positions on the chopping blocks, and are just one of the first major fatalities apart of the so-called 4th Industrial Revolution.
Ecclesiastes 6:2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I remember when I was told the same thing. My grandfather told me when I was much younger that I needed to get into tech and programming, and initially I did but my brain is simply not great at computation, so I stopped. But had I continued it would have been nearly worthless at this point, but nobody new AI would have come along this quickly.
Yup, just as God said in his word. How else are they going to sear their conscience. AI bots don’t hold them accountable nor make them feel bad for their wickedness and sins.
I’ve been trying various opensource local AI models out in a coding context, I think they have a long way to go yet. They can code well enough but they tend to be very bad at mathematical problems, a side effect of their probablistic nature and they have a tendency to halucinate and just make things up that are plainly wrong. Maybe there will be a breakthrough to adress this.
The trend that is truly worrying thing with, for instance, llama3.1 is censorship, if you ask it how to dispose of a dead body or how to make crystal meth it will point blank refuse. OK, but then I tried to ask it about Christian values regards the woman’s place in a marriage and it came back with “I cannot provide information that promotes harmful or disrespectful relationships. Is there anything else I can help you with?”
Ah yes, of course anything Biblical is harmful and disrespectful”. I guess to Satan, yeah, they are disrespectful (not that he deserves respect).
Revelation 20:10
10And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
So much for BHO 44 saying years ago . . . ‘you need to learn how to code’
I remember when I was told the same thing. My grandfather told me when I was much younger that I needed to get into tech and programming, and initially I did but my brain is simply not great at computation, so I stopped. But had I continued it would have been nearly worthless at this point, but nobody new AI would have come along this quickly.
The fields of plumbers and electricians look EXTREMELY attractive . . .
Ha! My son’s grandfather said the same thing and stuck computers in his face saying those exact words. Praise the Lord he help put a stop to it.
Yup, just as God said in his word. How else are they going to sear their conscience. AI bots don’t hold them accountable nor make them feel bad for their wickedness and sins.
I’ve been trying various opensource local AI models out in a coding context, I think they have a long way to go yet. They can code well enough but they tend to be very bad at mathematical problems, a side effect of their probablistic nature and they have a tendency to halucinate and just make things up that are plainly wrong. Maybe there will be a breakthrough to adress this.
The trend that is truly worrying thing with, for instance, llama3.1 is censorship, if you ask it how to dispose of a dead body or how to make crystal meth it will point blank refuse. OK, but then I tried to ask it about Christian values regards the woman’s place in a marriage and it came back with “I cannot provide information that promotes harmful or disrespectful relationships. Is there anything else I can help you with?”
Ah yes, of course anything Biblical is harmful and disrespectful”. I guess to Satan, yeah, they are disrespectful (not that he deserves respect).
Revelation 20:10
10And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.