Taylor: AI will replace raw coding, but architectural judgment will endure
Bret Taylor · The AI Architect: Bret Taylor · Feb 11, 2025 · at 1:02:50
Bret Taylor, Chairman of OpenAI and CEO of Sierra, discusses the future role of software engineers in an era of advanced AI.
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“Certainly software engineering will be one of the disciplines most impacted. And I think that it's very, so like, I think if you're in this industry and you define yourself by the tools that you use, like how many characters you can type into Vim every day, that's probably not like a long-term stable place to be because that's something that certainly AI can do better than you. But your judgment about what to build and how to build it still apply. And that will always be true.”
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