From Kingmakers to co-pilots, what's the future for developers?

Is the market shifting from evaluating software as an economic driver to re-evaluating the cost of software in the context of how AI can improve, augment or replace developers? 

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SHOW NOTES:

• AWS CEO says developers might stop coding soon (Business Insider)
• Amazon CEO highlights the impacts of co-pilots on code (Andy Jassy)
• I’m tired of fixing customer’s AI-generated code
• The New Kingmakers (Stephen O’Grady)
• Exploring Generative AI (Martin Fowler)
• The Death of the Junior Developer
• Salary Pressures, Not AI, Vex Developers (The New Stack)

THE CLOUD WAS BUILT UPON ENABLING DEVELOPERS (“BUILDERS”)

• The value of the developer exploded over the last decade
• Software has reshaped most industries over the last decade

WE’RE MOVING FROM THE ECONOMICS OF SOFTWARE TO THE ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPERS

• Code assistants for AI are the early leader in driving AI revenue
• Do we have developer “productivity” or “creativity”?
• Does AI have more impact on legacy code or new code?
• How does the role of Junior vs. Senior developer change?
• What happens to System Integrators? 

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