Microsoft wants to replace programmers with AI

Microsoft recently released details on a code development platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI) agents. In this concept, human programmers are assigned a supervisory role. Called AutoDev, the platform is designed to allow AI agents to interact with each other to develop code.

Such an automated development platform relies on multiple repositories to handle complex software engineering tasks. Furthermore, users have the necessary tools to validate their own results. Initial tests show that the concept proposed by Microsoft is fully feasible.

The question is, where will the human programmer fit in? According to Microsoft’s research, the role of human programmers will be to act as supervisors, similar to what project managers do. In other words, human programmers will no longer write the code necessary for the program’s goals, but will instead be spectators to the work being done by the AI, able to intervene whenever they see fit.

In this future, humans will not have to perfect the art of coding, but will have to focus on explaining their purpose so that they can intervene whenever the AI ​​deviates from the goals defined in the project's conception.

Again, this scenario raises the question of what the future will look like if AI takes over what humans are doing. What jobs will humans have in the future if everything is done by AI?

Even more important is knowing who will be able to intervene if things start to go wrong. In other words, if everything is done by AI, who will have the knowledge to fix it when necessary? This is a debate that is far from over, especially with the progress being reported on AI on a regular basis.