AI will replace most of developers in 3 waves. Here is I think how.

Christopher Saez 📱
6 min readMar 17, 2024

Update May 4th ⚔️: AI consequences on junior opened position and Augment company raised 227 milions of dollars as a Github Copilot competitor.

I hear everywhere why AI will never replace developers, here and there. But I believe, factually, that AI will replace them, with some sources, demonstrations, and explanations.

N.B.: When I say replace developers, I mean the vast majority, and gradually, so not 100%, and not in a single wave.

Summary

  • Low Code/ No Code — The first wave
  • The lowest popular language and framework
  • The rest of developers — The last wave
  • Why developers doesn’t believe in it

Github Research on Copilot shows that users accept 30% of the code its Copilot suggests and that less experienced developers have a greater advantage with AI. This leads some to believe that genAI may spell the end for low-code platforms.

Low Code / No Code — The first wave (very high confidence)

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Christopher Saez 📱

Lead mobile engineer on both #iOS and #Android @Shopmium 🚀