Human programmers would soon become obsolete. 

 

23/8/2024

The CEO of Amazon Cloud says in a leaked tape that human programmers would soon become obsolete.

“When we communicate with computers, we use a language very close to coding. It’s not always the aptitude by itself.

In a leaked “fireside chat,” CEO of Amazon Matt Garman made a suggestion that in order to make place for coders using artificial intelligence, human engineers could need to learn new abilities in as little as two years.

In an audio recording that was leaked to Business Insider, he stated, “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.”

Just one month after overseeing hundreds of AWS job layoffs in April, Garman was promoted to CEO. He is the perfect person to deliver that kind of inspirational speech to his gathering workforce because of his history of rising quickly in the face of layoffs.

“The language we use to communicate with computers is quite similar to coding. The CEO stated, “It’s not necessarily the skill in and of itself. “The ability by itself is similar to asking how can I innovate? How can I create something that my end consumers will find engaging to use?”

“Being a developer in 2025 may be different than what it was as a developer in 2020,” Garman stated.

Even if Garman’s terminology sounds a touch frightening, AWS maintains that he wasn’t providing a “warning,” underscoring the risks of job automation in the AI era. Experts have long expressed concern that software engineers and programmers may eventually be completely replaced by technology; nevertheless, it is unclear how imminent this threat is or when we will actually begin to experience its impacts.

The tone of the conversation and the context around everything connected to job security in the computer field right now make it quite evident that Garman was talking about AI taking over the labor of coding, even though he doesn’t seem to have named the algorithmic elephant in the room.

“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,” Garman stated, “because that’s going to be more and more of what the work is as opposed to sitting down and actually writing code.”

In a statement provided to BI, an AWS spokesperson asserted that Garman was not frightening developers but rather outlining ways for them to “accomplish more than they do today.”

“Matt articulated a vision for how AWS will continue to remove undifferentiated heavy lifting from the developer experience,” said the spox, “so that builders can focus more of their skill and energy on the most innovative work.”

The precise definition of “innovative work” is still up for debate.

 

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