Dry.io Wants To Democratize Software Development Using AI (venturebeat.com)

An anonymous reader writes: We've seen companies big and small build everything from AI-driven developer tools to AI-powered developer environments. But what if instead of having AI merely help developers write code, it did all the heavy lifting? Dry.io, a developer playground that helps you write web apps using just a few lines of code, began accepting signups today for its first wave of external testing. The programmable software platform lets you set the parameters of what you want to build, "and the AI takes care of the rest."

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I'm not holding my breath.....

[thereddaikon]

I have heard about the death of programming for years. Since the mid 90's people have been telling me that software that can write software better than programmers can is just around the corner. I'm still waiting. Development tools have gotten better and newer languages are certainly easier and faster to develop on, although they don't result in faster code. Right now AI is little more than an industry buzzword. It isn't real yet, not in the way its marketed at least. Don't expect anyone to change this soon.

Only a matter of time

[theCat]

I've been coding for 30 years, and for the last 5 years I could see this coming. Recently I've been telling people that there is maybe 2 more years left in this field before the door starts to close. Some types of work will continue, but the overall era of throwing rooms full of coders at software will have ended. Surprised it took this long; much of my work for the last 10 years has been a process of cut/paste from my earlier work, or just Goolge a question, follow a link to Stackoverflow, read a few posts for 10 minutes, and only then copy/paste. This process has almost never failed, certainly it works well enough to hand 95% of what I "do" to a machine that can then "do" the same thing except at 1000x.