After reading the articles above and performing the coding exercise, share your thoughts about what this all means for the future of coding. What does AI mean for software, game, app and web development?
As I previously mentioned in previous blog posts that related to similar industries, I believe AI is both revolutionary as well as polarizing for web development as well as our economy and industry as a whole. We have already seen software and games that have been developed with extensive use of AI, with a leading example being a best selling game released on January 19th of this year by the name of Palworld. AI is already being used to write code, design graphics, animate, and streamline workflow in an industry that is already seeing major post-covid layoffs as the tech industry slims down.
What are your concerns about the profession and what do you see are the opportunities?
AI opens many doors in the realm of creativity but at a cost of less manpower needed in order to achieve desired results as the entire process eliminates the need for redundant workers. I foresee many jobs and departments slimmed down extensively to a key few individuals who are able to quickly work with AI to complete tasks that used to require much more time and workers.
How might this affect your own future plans?
As AI advances further along and becomes even more efficient, I believe it will soon move to a place where it coincides with daily workflow in not only tech related fields, but also a broad spectrum of other fields. It is already implemented to a high degree in many silicon valley jobs and programmers and developers already work alongside it in an almost unofficial relationship. As the technology improves, I believe not only will it become mandatory to work alongside AI software and engines, but being able to skillfully manipulate it will be a highly desired commodity in the workforce. As such, I am trying to incorporate it into much of my work flow and learning process as possible, to prepare for a work force that will co-exist with AI.