<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>warbled_tongue</author><text>This resonates strongly with me. I don&amp;#x27;t want to describe the painting, I want to paint it. If this is indeed where we end up, I don&amp;#x27;t know that I&amp;#x27;ll change professions (I&amp;#x27;m 30+ years into it), but the joy will be gone. It will truly become &amp;quot;just a job&amp;quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>&amp;gt; In summary, I believe there would still be a market for Software Developers in the foreseeable future, though the nature of work will change&lt;p&gt;This is precisely what I dread. When it comes to software development specifically, the parts that the AI cheerleaders are excited about AI doing are exactly the parts of the job that I find appealing. If I wanted to be a glorified systems integrator, I would have been doing that job already. The parts that the author is saying will still exist are the parts I put up with in order to do the enjoyable and satisfying work.&lt;p&gt;So this essay, if it&amp;#x27;s correct, explains the way that AI threatens my career. Perhaps there is no role for me in the software development world anymore. I&amp;#x27;m not saying that&amp;#x27;s bad in the big picture, just that it&amp;#x27;s bad for me. It increasingly appears that I&amp;#x27;ve chosen the wrong profession.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thoughts on the Future of Software Development</title><url>https://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/thoughts-on-the-future-of-software-development/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ActionHank</author><text>Also if there are fewer humans involved in the code production there is a lot of room for producing code that &amp;quot;works&amp;quot;, but is not cohesive or maintainable. Invariably there will be a point at which something is broken and someone will need to wade through the mess to find why it&amp;#x27;s broken and try to fix it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>&amp;gt; In summary, I believe there would still be a market for Software Developers in the foreseeable future, though the nature of work will change&lt;p&gt;This is precisely what I dread. When it comes to software development specifically, the parts that the AI cheerleaders are excited about AI doing are exactly the parts of the job that I find appealing. If I wanted to be a glorified systems integrator, I would have been doing that job already. The parts that the author is saying will still exist are the parts I put up with in order to do the enjoyable and satisfying work.&lt;p&gt;So this essay, if it&amp;#x27;s correct, explains the way that AI threatens my career. Perhaps there is no role for me in the software development world anymore. I&amp;#x27;m not saying that&amp;#x27;s bad in the big picture, just that it&amp;#x27;s bad for me. It increasingly appears that I&amp;#x27;ve chosen the wrong profession.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thoughts on the Future of Software Development</title><url>https://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/thoughts-on-the-future-of-software-development/</url></story>