{"id":22614,"date":"2025-02-20T15:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22614"},"modified":"2025-02-21T14:26:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T14:26:31","slug":"a-i-is-prompting-an-evolution-not-an-extinction-for-coders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22614","title":{"rendered":"A.I. Is Prompting an Evolution, Not an Extinction, for Coders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A.I. tools from Microsoft and other companies are helping write code, placing software engineers at the forefront of the technology\u2019s potential to disrupt the work force.<\/p>\n

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John Giorgi uses artificial intelligence to make artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old computer scientist creates software for a health care start-up that records and summarizes patient visits for doctors, freeing them from hours spent typing up clinical notes.<\/p>\n

To do so, Mr. Giorgi has his own timesaving helper: an A.I. coding assistant. He taps a few keys and the software tool suggests the rest of the line of code. It can also recommend changes, fetch data, identify bugs and run basic tests. Even though the A.I. makes some mistakes, it saves him up to an hour many days.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t imagine working without it now,\u201d Mr. Giorgi said.<\/p>\n

That sentiment is increasingly common among software developers, who are at the forefront of adopting A.I. agents<\/a>, assistant programs tailored to help employees do their jobs in fields including customer service and manufacturing. The rapid improvement of the technology has been accompanied by dire warnings that A.I. could soon automate away millions of jobs<\/a> \u2014 and software developers have been singled out as prime targets.<\/p>\n

But the outlook for software developers is more likely evolution than extinction, according to experienced software engineers, industry analysts and academics. For decades, better tools have automated some coding tasks, but the demand for software and the people who make it has only increased.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A.I., they say, will accelerate that trend and level up the art and craft of software design.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe skills software developers need will change significantly, but A.I. will not eliminate the need for them,\u201d said Arnal Dayaratna, an analyst at IDC, a technology research firm. \u201cNot anytime soon anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

The outlook for software engineers offers a window into the impact that generative A.I.<\/a> \u2014 the kind behind chatbots like OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT \u2014 is likely to have on knowledge workers across the economy, from doctors and lawyers to marketing managers and financial analysts. Predictions about the technology\u2019s consequences vary widely, from wiping out whole swaths of the work force to hyper-charging productivity as an elixir for economic growth.<\/p>\n

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A.I. tools from Microsoft and other companies are helping write code, placing software engineers at the forefront of the technology\u2019s potential to disrupt the work force.John Giorgi uses artificial intelligence to make artificial intelligence.The 29-year-old computer scientist creates software for a health care start-up that records and summarizes patient visits for doctors, freeing them from hours spent typing up clinical notes.To do so, Mr. Giorgi has his own timesaving helper: an A.I. coding assistant. He taps a few keys and the software tool suggests the rest of the line of code. It can also recommend changes, fetch data, identify bugs and run basic tests. Even though the A.I. makes some mistakes, it saves him up to an hour many days.\u201cI can\u2019t imagine working without it now,\u201d Mr. Giorgi said.That sentiment is increasingly common among software developers, who are at the forefront of adopting A.I. agents, assistant programs tailored to help employees do their jobs in fields including customer service and manufacturing. The rapid improvement of the technology has been accompanied by dire warnings that A.I. could soon automate away millions of jobs \u2014 and software developers have been singled out as prime targets.But the outlook for software developers is more likely evolution than extinction, according to experienced software engineers, industry analysts and academics. For decades, better tools have automated some coding tasks, but the demand for software and the people who make it has only increased.A.I., they say, will accelerate that trend and level up the art and craft of software design.\u201cThe skills software developers need will change significantly, but A.I. will not eliminate the need for them,\u201d said Arnal Dayaratna, an analyst at IDC, a technology research firm. \u201cNot anytime soon anyway.\u201dThe outlook for software engineers offers a window into the impact that generative A.I. \u2014 the kind behind chatbots like OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT \u2014 is likely to have on knowledge workers across the economy, from doctors and lawyers to marketing managers and financial analysts. Predictions about the technology\u2019s consequences vary widely, from wiping out whole swaths of the work force to hyper-charging productivity as an elixir for economic growth.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22616,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22617,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22614\/revisions\/22617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}