I dare to say that most, if not all, include computer-assisted programming among the most important trends to take into account for the coming years.
With different names, they all show that, faced with the impossibility of facing and winning the race for technological talent, efforts are multiplied to create and adopt tools that somehow speed up development work to produce enough lines of code to meet the digitization and automation needs demanded by all industries.
In tandem with new digital business models, development teams face continual pressure to rapidly deliver new capabilities and create more dynamic and proactive experiences than ever before. For the most part, heDevelopers accept the challenge.
For these reasons, tools that assist development have emerged, ranging from event-based architectures, through composable applications or No/Low Code to Artificial Intelligence bots that, depending on the needs, deliver code adapted to the specific need of the developer.
Every day it is more common to hear about this among programmers, developers and systems analysts who try to catch up between the demand and maximum potential of production and generation of lines of code that programmers have.
That maximum potential is limited by the amount of human talent available. What places the technology industry in the challenge of facing two parallel lanes: the creation of new talent and the creation of tools that can streamline and speed development.
Regarding the first, for some time now the software development industry has been talking about and creating initiatives to attract new talent and train them to meet the demand.
Regarding the development of tools that assist programming, there are important players in the industry with notable advances.
IMHO both lanes of this freeway are heading towards the same destination and are not competing with each other. They have a common purpose, agility and speed to meet demand.
It is possible that one shows more speed or advances than the other, or that it seems that one can replace the other.
As in almost all professions today, the Artificial intelligence can be seen as a threat to Human Intelligence.
It is likely that in the future, the development of Artificial Intelligence may allow us to request a certain functionality or code for our business need, and it will respond efficiently with an appropriate development.
However, it is unlikely that the Artificial intelligence per se, you can have the right business insight to decide what functionality is right for the business, its processes, and its competitive differentiation.
What is certain is that human intelligence alone is limited to the ability of the programmer to write lines of code and that any tool that can assist them in the generation of new software will be welcome and well used.
It is also true that user requirements become more complex as time goes by and they get used to new technological developments. Understand this type of complexity, where user experience, business needs and new emerging technologies intermingle; It is extremely complex for an artificial intelligence as we understand it today.
I definitely don’t think that, in the future, programmers will be replaced by artificial intelligence. Or jobs are lost.
Quite the contrary, I think they will be perfected or reinvented. As is happening with other professions, human intelligence will be increased with the use of artificial intelligence tools to assist it.
The professional life of the programmer, developer or analyst will be reformulated, as it has been today in some way, towards a professional with greater capacity to make decisions supported by tools that will execute repetitive activities or that create less value for business processes.
Moreover, I am confident that the emergence and adoption of these new tools and technologies that facilitate software development will allow specialists and professionals from all industries, even those most distant from technology, such as doctors, lawyers or educators; they will be able to approach much more easily the infinite universe that digitizing and automating their day-to-day activities implies.
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