When All The Coders Are Gone.
When the coders are gone, will we miss them? The subculture? A glance 25 years into the future of almost no coders.
Maryam felt the butterflies leave her stomach as she let out a quiet sigh. For now her job was safe and for her team. Most of whom were humans. Her team in fact, had the most humans on it, all five of them. And the eight AI agents.
Quietly, Maryam opened her laptop as the morning sun streamed across the kitchen table. She opened their messaging app, the one they’d built specifically so no AI agents could access it. Only the humans on the team were allowed. She messaged everyone that the team was still intact, budgets approved. She’d see everyone in the office.
Last night, she and her partner Sarah had watched re-runs of a popular comedy show in the 2010’s about a group of nerds. Now, twenty-five years later in 2044, the tech jokes were sometimes lost, the coder language she couldn’t always understand and the show antiquated, but held a certain nostalgia for a time when nerds were, to some degree celebrated in society.
She remembered a decade ago, when human coders still outnumbered the AI agents. Her computer science curriculum had included 40% of the courses focusing on how to work with AI agents and tools. Ethics courses and…
