Are we reskilling - deskilling or unskilling developers
This week, when I presented at the European Parliament on AI - someone asked me a question after the talk
Are we reskilling - deskilling or unskilling developers?
Today, this is a common question
I believe AI is fundamentally changing the job of the developer
My response to the question was
We are in a situation where developers will have to work at a higher level of abstraction
I shared the following example
Charles Darwin was a drop out twice (Edinburgh - for medicine and Cambridge for Theology)
He was however deeply interested in collecting and natural history ( a field that did not exist at that time)
In 1831, at the age of 22, Darwin embarked on a five-year voyage around the world aboard the the ship HMS Beagle. The journey exposed him to a wide variety of geological formations, fossils, and most famously, the unique species of the Galápagos Islands. There, he noticed slight variations among finches on different islands.
After more than 25 years of research, Darwin published “On the Origin of Species” in 1859, proposing that species evolve over time through a process of natural selection—where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and reproduce.
Why is this a higher level of abstraction as a problem solving technique? Many people would have been on ships and seen the finches. But Darwin was able to create a whole theory from specific observations - and that took 25 years to develop in his own mind. And technically, we was neither trained in anything nor qualified (since a twice dropout)
So the question - Are we reskilling - deskilling or unskilling developers? - inherently is limited by the emphasis on the status-quo - kind of a horseless - carriage perspective
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10 小时前Is there any conclusive data to show developers will do more abstract coding? Do we have any data to show the long term psychological impact this has? Do we have any other reasons besides profit and gain these higher abstract skills are not damaging or harming anyone?
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1 天前In the present. All the above smiling items. Once skill sets are gotten a lot smother. However, humankind and balance meld into the paradigms. In the future developments many changes
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1 天前You nailed the crux of the problem. People who start thinking of the future from what is, aka the status quo, i.e. the horse drawn carriage, have difficulty seeing beyond the horseless carriage as the greatest application of the new technology. In other words, we limit the value of the new technology within the parameters of doing what’s already being done - just better. The starting point is the limiter for innovation. If you start from another point - a point where you start by imagining what could be ideal but seemingly too “impossible” to be “practical” and THEN think what could AI enable/empower and make “possible”, then the use cases start getting really interesting!
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