Would You Retire Rather Than ...

About this episode

The episode discusses Bjarne Stroustrup's views on AI and coding, particularly the trend of senior developers retiring rather than adapting to AI technologies.

Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of C++. I read a few of his books and alternately loved what he'd done and hated having to write C++ code in university and at a few jobs. I found it tedious and hard, though arguably better than C once you had a decent set of classes structured. BTW, I love his website, the basic text view of the world, which is how I have built a few sites on my own. I caught an interview with him and this short response on AI and coding . He had this quote: "Senior developers are already retiring rather than deal with it." He doesn't love the results from AI, which is fine. And it's not what I want to talk about today. Read the rest of Would You Retire Rather Than ...

People in this episode

Host: Steve Jones

Topics covered

• C++
• AI in coding
• software development
• retirement
• senior developers

Keywords

• Bjarne Stroustrup
• C++
• AI
• coding
• software development
• retirement
• senior developers

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