SEATTLE–The CEO of Amazon Web Services is predicting that over the next two years artificial intelligence will mean that most developers’ jobs will no longer be about coding.
Instead, said Matt Garman, AI will mean a software engineer's job description will evolve to be more about innovation and thinking about the end product, according to Business Insider, which said it received a recording of remarks Garman made to employees.
"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," Garman was quoted as saying.
Need to Get ‘In Tune’
Garman took over as CEO of AWS in early June after nearly two decades in the division.
"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," Garman reportedly stated, according to Business Insider.
AWS currently has about 130,000 employees, having laid off several hundred people in April in its sales, marketing, and global services divisions the report noted.
Inroads in Credit Unions
As CUToday.info has reported earlier, some in credit unions have made similar predictions, with Origence, for example, saying it is already using AI to create code.