• Question: Will AI replace a lot if computing jobs EG: code writer / script writer

    Asked by take519oaks on 24 Oct 2024. This question was also asked by knee519sops.
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      Martin McMahon answered on 24 Oct 2024:

      I’m not sure it would. AI can certainly help to speed things up, but not replace us entirely. I use AI to create general scripts that I then edit and enhance myself.

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      John Easton answered on 8 Nov 2024:

      Yes – a lot of jobs will change because of AI. That doesn’t mean that they are necessarily replaced, but the jobs will change for sure. Programming is one where an AI assistant can help you write code, but because it doesn’t understand the business problem or what the code actually does, it’s going to need someone to “translate” what the AI tool comes up with into something that actually solves the problem the organisation is facing.

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      Caroline Roche answered on 30 Nov 2024:

      I can’t see AI fully replacing alot of computing jobs, it will start to be used alot more going forward but mainly in cross-checking and reviewing the work done by a human against the design documentation.
      I’m looking forward to it being used in helping developing the documents I have to write which should free up my time to do other work.

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      Neil Barnby answered on 22 Apr 2025:

      In general AI is used as a tool. So, it can be used to make jobs like coding faster and take some of the mundane stuff out of it.

      When I started coding it was in something called assembly language, a low level language, which was very difficult to understand and the programs were very long to do even simple things. Now we use languages like Python, a high level language, which is easier to understand, but underneath there is still languages similar to assembly, you just have programmes that convert the code you see as Python into the lower level code. So it makes it easier and quicker to do more complex tasks.

      AI is another tool like a Python interpreter/compiler and will make current coding tasks quicker and easier by doing some of it for you, so you can create more complex tasks easier. However, for simple HTML web coders, who only work in static web pages, those types jobs will be replaced by AI.

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    Edward commented on :

    I don’t code as often as I’d like so when I get a new project, I am a bit rusty. Let’s say it is sensor data and there are a lot of dates in the file. I can never remember how to check the computer recognises them as dates and convert them to the format I want so before, I used places like Stackoverflow to help me. I still do, but ChatGPT can give me some code quickly that I can then adapt.

    It helps me to speed up the simpler tasks. I still feel you need humans to plan your program structure so that it addresses whatever requirements you need to achieve.