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AI is revolutionizing industries, and software engineering is no exception.
In a leaked recording of a June fireside chat, Obtained by Business InsiderAmazon Web Services CEO Matt Gurman reportedly told employees that AI will change what it means to be a software engineer and essentially alter the job description.
“If we look 24 months from now, or even further out, and I can’t predict exactly when that will be, it’s possible that most developers won’t be coding,” Gurman said, adding that the role of developers will look different next year compared to 2020.
AWS CEO Matt Gurman. Photo credit: Amazon
Gurman became CEO of AWS. June 3 After nearly 20 years in the sector, he joined AWS as a full-time product manager when the company was founded in 2006. Only 3 people Part of a worldwide sales team.
In the leaked chat, Gurman said innovation will replace coding, which he said means developers will have to think more deeply about the end product.
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“It just means that each of us has to pay more attention to what the customer wants and what the end thing we’re actually trying to build is, because that’s going to take up more of the job than sitting down and actually writing code,” he was quoted as saying.
AWS currently has approximately 130,000 employee, Hundreds of people were laid off The survey was conducted in April across sales, marketing and global services.
Marco Argenti, CIO of Goldman Sachs, said: expressed similar sentiments April — Technical skills alone were not enough to work with AI.
Aggenti encouraged future engineers, including his college-aged daughter, to study philosophy in addition to engineering to keep up with technological advances.
Philosophy, Argenti said, would give engineers the reasoning skills and mental framework to keep up with the AI, detect hallucinations and challenge its output.
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