AI Will Not Be Taking Away Code Jobs Anytime Soon

There has been much recent talk about the near future of code writing itself with the help of trained neural networks but outside of some limited use cases, that reality is still quite some time away--at least for ordinary development efforts. Although auto-code generation is not a new concept, it has been getting fresh attention due to better capabilities and ease of use in neural network frameworks. But just as in other areas where AI is touted as being the near-term automation savior, the hype does not match the technological complexity need to make it reality. Just in the last few weeks Google, Microsoft and IBM have announced new ways of boosting developer productivity with deep learning frameworks that fill themselves in--at least in part. The headlines exclaim that code is writing itself; that programmers will no longer be necessary.