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Quoting D. Richard Hipp
WHY IT MATTERS
For engineers building software, this framing suggests AI may abstract away certain implementation tasks the way SQL abstracted data access, without removing the need for skilled practitioners. The historical precedent implies the profession adapts its skill requirements rather than disappearing.
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Hipp notes that before SQL, specialized COBOL programmers were required to write software that queried large data sets.
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SQL provided a simpler specification mechanism that automated the code generation those programmers previously handled manually.
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The comparison implies AI will transform what developers do day-to-day, not eliminate the need for developers entirely.
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