Software's centaur age may last decades

14 pointsposted 11 hours ago
by srijan4

5 Comments

byoung2

10 hours ago

I feel like this centaur age could unlock a lot of embedded device programming which would greatly increase the demand for AI-assisted software engineers for at least a few decades. Humans have the intuition to know what to build, and how devices should interact with people, while AI will know the lower level code to run on hardware that isn't a smartphone or computer, but is more sophisticated than an ASIC or FPGA. There's going to be a lot of software required to make devices smarter, to run more AI locally, and to connect to remote AI. Centaurs will be plenty busy for a long time to come

cyanydeez

3 hours ago

All roses until the MBA comes along.

vrighter

8 hours ago

embedded is the one where using ai has much larger risks.

byoung2

2 hours ago

That’s why humans need to be part of the process. Otherwise we get SkyNet

blinkbat

11 hours ago

Wow a good post I agree with almost entirely.