HE is shaking up industries – and software engineering is no exception.
In a leaked recording of a conversation in June taken from Business InsiderAmazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman reportedly told employees that AI is changing what it means to be a software engineer — and essentially changing the job description.
“If you go ahead 24 months from now, or some time — I can't predict exactly where it is — it's possible that most developers aren't coding,” Garman said, later adding that the role of the developer would look different in next. compared to 2020.
Matt Garman, CEO of AWS. Photo Credit: Amazon
Garman took over as CEO of AWS on June 3 after nearly two decades of separation. He joined as a full-time product manager in 2006 when AWS had only three people to its worldwide sales team.
In the leaked conversation, Garman said that innovation will replace coding, which means developers will have to think more about the final product.
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“It just means that each of us has to adapt more to what our customers need and the actual conclusion is that we will try to build because this will be more and more of what the job is as opposed to sitting and write the code”, he is said to have said.
AWS currently has approx 130,000 employees, having laid off several hundred people in April to its global sales, marketing and services divisions.
Marco Argenti, CIO of Goldman Sachs, expressed a similar sentiment in April – technical skills alone were not enough to handle AI.
To keep up with technology, Agent encouraged future engineers, including his college-aged daughter, to study philosophy in addition to engineering.
The philosophy would give engineers the reasoning skills and frame of mind to keep up with the AI, detect hallucinations and challenge its output, according to Argenti.
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