The advancements of AI in the last decade have made it possible for non-native developers and tech people to express their innovations in tech, where in the past needed a technical co-founder or pay steep fees to a consultant to develop your idea.
As a developer and founder I have experienced this from both perspectives. The amount of gatekeeping in the tech community has really puzzled me. I understand that as a developer who has refined the art over decades, it is very strange to encounter people who have been able to throw together an MVP in 3 weeks using AI; but is that not what we want? The advancement of new ideas, innovation - and inevitably a lot of failure and learnings due to lack of experience, which as developers we know all too well.
I believe moving fast and breaking things is the way to encounter groundbreaking ideas and technology - AI is definitely a tool which has made this more accessible for everyone which in turn should be viewed, from a developers perspective, as something that can help us all and society in general - not just take our jobs.
I agree, it’s a bit nerve-wracking watching someone who has never written a line of code deploy their SaaS platform including a whole setup for authentication, handling and storing sensitive data, and of course we think - is this safe? Now, my question to you is: Compared to 15 years ago, was the web safer than it is today? I don’t have the answer and I want to believe that it is, but I think it’s an interesting question to consider.
So my hope for you as a developer is next time a non-technical person uses AI to get their ideas out in the world, don’t discourage them - help them, because we have all been there with our scrappy starter projects being thrown into production.
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