Good news! - the era of software developers complaining about having to work on a legacy code base is coming to a close. Amazon CEO Andrew Jassy last week announced Amazon Q, an in-house GenAI assistant which can refactor code in seconds, saving Amazon an incredible ‘
4,500 developer years of work’. Two visions on how this goes - more time freed up for new feature / product development, or smaller sized engineering teams because the codebase will self update and self maintain. Whichever the case, the work of s/w engineering with change as
prompting the machine overtakes writing the script. H/T to brainfooder
Stanislaw Wasowicz for the share in the
online community