Who knew?
AI agents already look poised to soon be at the level of junior engineers, but they could rapidly increase in capabilities after that.
Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer at OpenAI, has painted a particularly ambitious picture of how AI could transform software development. Weil’s vision, revealed during a discussion about the future of AI agents in software engineering, suggests a shockingly accelerated career path for these AI systems – potentially reaching the level of a software architect within a single year.
Weil believes that AI’s initial entry point into software engineering will be at the junior level. “These agentic software engineers, if you will, will start as Junior Engineers. You’re going to give them easier problems to solve, and if you give them too hard of a problem they’re not going to quite know how to do it or they’re gonna get it wrong,” he says.
But the learning curve, according to Weil, is where AI distinguishes itself. “It’s a new grad engineer today, and then it’s a medium engineer in three months, and it’s a senior engineer in six months, and it’s an architect in a year,” Weil said....
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