In a leaked recording, Amazon cloud chief tells employees that most developers could stop coding soon as AI takes over - eviltoast
Matt Garman sees a shift in software development as AI automates coding, telling staff to enhance product-management skills to stay competitive.

Software engineers may have to develop other skills soon as artificial intelligence takes over many coding tasks.

That’s according to Amazon Web Services’ CEO, Matt Garman, who shared his thoughts on the topic during an internal fireside chat held in June, according to a recording of the meeting obtained by Business Insider.

“If you go forward 24 months from now, or some amount of time — I can’t exactly predict where it is — it’s possible that most developers are not coding,” said Garman, who became AWS’s CEO in June.

“Coding is just kind of like the language that we talk to computers. It’s not necessarily the skill in and of itself,” the executive said. “The skill in and of itself is like, how do I innovate? How do I go build something that’s interesting for my end users to use?”

This means the job of a software developer will change, Garman said.

“It just means that each of us has to get more in tune with what our customers need and what the actual end thing is that we’re going to try to go build, because that’s going to be more and more of what the work is as opposed to sitting down and actually writing code,” he said.

  • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Yeah it’s super obvious that he’s a product manager from the quotes.

    the executive said. “The skill in and of itself is like, how do I innovate? How do I go build something that’s interesting for my end users to use?”

    This is the path for promotion for product managers. Create new interesting products and move on before they fail. And yeah, if you really don’t care about failing LLMs can maybe help speed up prototyping here.

    However, what Aws actually tries to sell to users is rock solid reliability and high up time. If you start asking “how do I go build something that’s even more reliable?” It’s incredibly clear that LLMs are not the answer.