AI SoftWear Engineers (SWE) are almost here, go Devin. I understand most arguments of it’s too early to worry about that to replace SWE jobs anytime soon. But, achieving 13+% of a “Real World SWE performance” as Cognition claimed is very impressive. I bet with the power of Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models, Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback(RLHF) & crazy progresses week by week, a Software as Service(SaaS) players like Cognition could be on the fast line to iterate toward a mass commercial adoption.
To adapt or not to adapt
Being a Techno-Optimist, I believe if AI SWE will replace human SWE is a wrong question. I’m more exciting about how the tech can augment more. For example, how it may level the playing field for more to solve the problems they care by machines. This year, a few of us are doing an experiment to teach 15+ high school students in Taiwan to get started with GenAI app development with all the AI helps they can get. It is also inspired by CS50.dev & the virtual duck from Harvard University’s CS50. We are eager to learn how far they can go in 8 weeks. Just like the saying: “If you can not beat them, join them” 🦾.
