Does the world still need computer programmers?

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Can we just let autonomous A.I. agents write our code, review it, publish it and live happily ever after without working but still get paid high salaries in a demanding competitive industry?

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No. Let's think about this, and consider some serious points. 

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1. If investors invested £12,000,000 into an existing company that has an existing product which is generating millions in annual revenue per year, would they agree to allow young developers with no experience of computer programming to run-wild allowing some automated software to edit and publish the code with no proper review system or safe guards that the code was correct or safe to introduce in their established & highly profitable system? NO - they would be furious and would simply hire a new team with great experience.

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2. If an existing company could use A.I. and automated agents to write code, review it and integrate it into their existing system, what do they need you for!? The wouldn't hire any more developers and there would no longer be Software Engineering jobs advertised on job boards online. Search iOS Developer jobs and see what results you get back.

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3. If the next wave of young iOS Developers depended on A.I. instead of learning Swift, architecture and building iOS apps then would you hire them? Sadly, it is already more difficult for Junior iOS Developers to get jobs for this very reason and the interview process is now even harder. Junior developers must prove themselves in an interview even more than they ever had to - providing code examples and in-person coding tests. 

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Conclusion:

In a world full of click-bait, selling-products with false advertising, blatant lies and A.I. machines that will apparently "do our work for us", we must use some common-sense; Getting paid for work simply means that there is a Market Place for people who have skills to contribute towards a larger system that receives profit for a service - do you have the skills to contribute? If you do then you can sell your skills and receive payment for it. If your only skill is telling the computer what to do and correcting it when it doesn't deliver then you don't really have anything to sell, which doesn't make you very valuable does it?

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Step 1: Gain skills to sell on the job market

Step 2: Use those skills for the benefit of the company

Step 3: Receive payment

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If you don't have the skills you won't get paid. 

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Go and learn some skills.

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Good luck.