Issue 57 - AI Was Not Meant to Take Over Software World

AI research has been going on for the last 25 years, and the majority of their focus was to solve medical problems. In the “The Thinking Game” documentary, you will see their sole focus was the protein folding problem.The reason was simple: the medical field has many unsolved problems and a large market. Solving these issues can have a significant impact on humanity, making it easy to pitch to investors.So what happened? Why did it suddenly start impacting software engineering?The short answer is, they found a product market fit by discovery.When ChatGPT was launched, it was initially marketed as an AI chatbot. They soon realized that software engineers were using it and asking programming questions, and it was solving those problems in a reasonable manner. That’s when they knew there was a huge market for AI in the software engineering space.That’s when the whole “software engineers will be replaced” narrative kicked off, because those were the people who adopted it the fastest.Here…