Google Pitchfork AI Won’t Replace Programmers

Why you should not prepare for the olimpics for your retirement

For those of you who wanted to read a longer essay.

Once in a while some news surface that AI will replace programmers. Today, it’s about Google’s project called Pitchfork.

I'd really love it if an AI replaced me. Because then my work would be only to supervise it. But so far, I have been a programmer for 20 years, and we are still not there.

240 Hotwired Permission Pairs

There is a valid reason why it won’t happen. In 2016 I started to work for an IoT startup. The ambitious team behind the project developed a rather complex industrial system managing mission critical devices monitoring and running an industrial, automated factory.

My task was to continue the development of a frontend application gathering data from various offsite and onsite systems, and help users make informed decisions about how to optimize the manufacturing process.

Faced with a list of features and bug fixes to apply I have spent the first month moving tickets to completed state while gathering the domain knowledge.

After three weeks I got a bug report in the permission system. It occurred that…