I thought this was an interesting take from Simon. Iβve been hearing him consistently say there will be more demand for software engineering in the future. More companies will have the ability and need to deal with software applications, but fewer of us will be hand editing any code. I thought this was an interesting interaction in the clip.
Uh Simon, what do you got for us?
Iβve just got the one. I think the act
of the the the job of being paid money to type code into a computer Yeah.
will go the same way as punching punch cards.
Okay.
I do I think in
six years time I do not think it will anyone will be paid to 80:56
Just type the code. Okay.
I think software engineering will still be an enormous career. I just think the software engineers wonβt be spending multiple hours of their day in a text
It will look like punching cards. I think
Yeah. Interesting. In uh in six years. Um and but software
I believe so. I I hope so. [laughter] I
the um the challenge of being a software
how if what what if what for loops look like. It is understanding what computers can do and how to turn fuzzy human requirements into actual like working software. And thatβs thatβs what weβre for. And I think weβll still be doing that just a lot more of it in a lot more
And then Okay. Do you Does the software engineer though deals with code? I mean they I mean the code is being written.
I think
Okay. Only occasionally a little
Who debugs it?
Um I I hate to say it, the agents
Okay. Who debugs your device driver that either works
working on this programming language like Iβm doing my
claude is happy to pull out GDB and just like
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