Replacing coders with AI? Why Bill Gates, Sam Altman and experience say you shouldn’t.

In the race to automate everything – from customer service to code – AI is being heralded as a silver bullet. The narrative is seductive: AI tools that can write entire applications, streamline engineering teams and reduce the need for expensive human developers, along with hundreds of other jobs. But from my point of view as a technologist who spends every day inside real companies’ data and workflows, the hype doesn’t match up with the reality. I’ve worked with industry leaders like General Electric, The Walt Disney Company and Harvard Medical School to optimize their data and AI infrastructure, and here’s what I’ve learned: Replacing humans with AI in most jobs is still just an idea on the horizon. I worry that we're thinking too far ahead. In the past two years, m [...]