Will the programming job disappear?
Or will AI take control?
The future of jobs for software developers is constantly in flux. Will coding jobs disappear completely? Research evidence indicates that a market bubble could be forming around software developers, but ask any married man who also has a kid whether he would be willing to sacrifice his job security, and you should get an answer that might surprise you.
Do programming jobs still exist in the future? Recently, there are a lot of people gave an alarm that because of machine learning or AI technology, most of the programming jobs will be disappeared soon.
The movie “Robot & Frank” showed us how a house-retired old man was urged to use his knowledge to rob banks. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, the majority of programming jobs may disappear within twenty years.
In the programming industry, there is a popular belief that the number of programming jobs will decrease in the future. While it is true that there has been a trend towards software automation and higher use of technology, the fact is that there are still plenty of job opportunities for programmers. It is also true that there are many ways to make a living from programming as long as one knows how to market themselves. Before I expand on this topic, I want to mention something else: even though it might be tempting to believe that programming jobs are going away because computers can do more and more work nowadays, this isn’t the case; automation doesn’t replace programmers but instead changes the way they work. What Programming Jobs Are Going Away? Programming jobs that require repetitive tasks such as testing or debugging code are going away. Programming jobs in which software engineers use basic algorithms over and over again without any need to think independently or creatively aren’t going anywhere either because they can be easily automated by computer programs. For example, if you’re writing an algorithm for trading stocks, you are most likely using an algorithm created by someone else; you’re just tweaking it so that it works best for your specific needs. Another example would be an algorithm for sorting numbers. Although this is something humans can do without thinking about it, there’s no reason to pay a human to do this when a computer can do it more quickly and accurately with an algorithm already available. A human programmer might be able to create the code for a new algorithm that can’t be automated easily by a computer program, but that’s expensive. The cost of paying programmers to develop code will rise while the cost of computers will fall. As the overall amount of work needed to create a piece of software becomes less and less, the demand for software engineers will decrease too. If office buildings are getting smarter and smarter thanks to automation, they will also need fewer people to manage them. Cars are becoming more intelligent thanks to automation — they’re going to need fewer people working on them in the future too. But that doesn’t mean programming jobs will disappear completely: We’ll always need programmers who can creatively come up with new algorithms for things we haven’t thought about yet
There’s no doubt that programming jobs are secure, if not on the rise. Demand will always be there for people who can write code. The real question is whether or not these jobs will be disappearing in a cloud of smoke at the hands of AI technology advances, or whether or not they’ll evolve. At the end of the day, I think good ol’ programming jobs will always be worth their salt; even if we treat our software with more respect than ever before, there will still be a need for human beings to fine-tune and patch things up when they go awry.
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