We all are aware of the rise of Low and No-code platforms that are popular for giving people with no tech background ability to build amazing tech stuff. However lately we have a new actor on the scene- AI, heralded by OpenAI’s GPT3 and Git Copilot.
Each has triggered waves of fear in developer communities based on the potential to replace developers. Whether or not each of them can replace developers or not in foreseeable future is not the interest of this article. The interest of this article is how you as a developer can rise with the tide.
It is argued that about 37% of the web runs on WordPress which is a Low code. In the coming years, many No-code platforms will be rising to similar heights. Everything built on these platforms are work taken off developer’s tables. Sooner or later, AI will achieve the proficiency level needed to become an active player in the field.
So, the real questions aren’t and shouldn’t be whether these platforms or tools will replace developers, but how developers can rise with them.
I think as they clear the table and take more work off the developer table, what will be left will be considerably more complex and abstract aspect of coding. Assuming that I am right which I am or would be, that leaves us with one conclusion: there will be coding jobs only for top tier/percentile most skilled developers.
Remember that.
Let us assume you make bike chains and bike manufacturers who build a bike with propellers are taking over the market. You have two options: option one is to fight the new progressives making bikes with propellers. That is likely going to burn you out to no good end or maybe to your end. Just like the Luddites at the early stage of the industrial revolution. Option two is to remain in the chain-making business and diversify over time into propellers. So, you benefit either way or rather both ways. Oh, there is option three, get paralyzed by fear and do nothing. Once again, to your end.
Option two is your best bet. So as developers I think you are better off constantly questioning yourself how you can be part of Low/No-code and AI coding revolution. At the same time, if you have the energy, you drill deeper to the ground bottom of coding, the level at which it gets more abstract and maybe mathematical. That way you would be relevant as long as you breathe or wish to remain in the business.
Summary
AI, Low/No-Code will clear the table to an extent, however, there will be jobs for top percentile highly skilled developers who can handle considerable complexity and abstraction.
Skill up if you can. Constantly try to see how you can be a player in the rise of AI in coding and Low/No code, and you will be just fine.
Panic is not a strategy.
- Vincent Ikechukwu, Enugu Nigeria-based Software Developer. I work with PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, and React. Ethereum Solidity in pipeline… Let’s discuss Your next project mr.ikunegbu@gmail.com
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