Citizen Devs: Everyone is an engineer now
A 2021 Gartner survey found 41% of employees were creating tech outside IT, before ChatGPT. Now, with AI, half your company is routing around you. The author argues DevOps must pivot from gatekeeping to paving a safe path for citizen developers, or face the consequences of ungoverned apps.
The business has never cared how the value gets made.
- pjmlp
Yeah, right.
That usually requires a 3 to 5 year degree, and possibly professional exam.
Having the AI do the work doesn't make one an engineer.
Just like one doesn't become a writer by owning a typewriter or a word processor.
- PostOnce
"Everyone is an engineer" sounds like something you hear right before a building collapses and kills 300 people
- jmchuster
My criteria is very simple, could you handwrite the code if you needed to. Could you write this code without the LLM writing it for you. Could you write this code without the IDE auto-completing it for you. You could take it all the way to, could you write the assembly if you needed to. Of course, the complexity of the ask and the timeline has to be commensurate with the power of your tooling at each level.
- mellosouls
Ooooh, a blast from the past from me in a discussion about No Code:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22034221
I was very anti it then - it was clearly Consultancy BS; but now non-devs really do have much more scope to create things that were only possible by software engineers before - and yes that creates challenges for us professionals.
But I no longer sneer at "The Citizen Developer" as an idea; its time has come.
- camgunz
Anyone can buy a table saw. Doesn't make you a carpenter and it doesn't mean you can/should build anything.