xAI CEO Elon Musk has predicted a serious change in coding-related jobs within the close to future because of the rise of synthetic intelligence. The billionaire claims that AI has taken out a lot of the ‘drudgery’ from writing software program and that coding may quickly turn into extra like portray as a ‘leisure’ exercise relatively than a purposeful job.
Replying to a put up by OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Musk wrote: “AI has taken a whole lot of the drudgery out of writing software program. However, within the pretty close to future, writing software program can be like being a painter: Within the outdated days, you wanted an expert painter to spend many days simply to make one selfie (fka a portrait) simply so individuals may know what you appeared like! Now, you can also make a video selfie immediately & effortlessly. There are nonetheless individuals who paint, in fact, however it’s leisure, relatively than purposeful.”
Notably, Musk was one of many co-founders of OpenAI. Whereas he ultimately had a falling out with the ChatGPT maker, the billionaire later launched his personal AI firm that merged with the social media platform X.
xAI runs the Grok AI chatbot which rivals the likes of ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude in a intently contested AI rat race. Whereas coding has been a serious focus level for generative AI startups from the start, these firms have lately begun rolling out full fledged AI brokers for coding associated duties.
OpenAI unveiled its Codex AI agent earlier this 12 months with the aim of constructing a “software program engineering agent within the cloud.” In the meantime, Microsoft lately launched GitHub Spark AI that may create apps utilizing simply pure language prompts.
As for xAI, the corporate lately launched a complicated coding assistant referred to as Grok 4 code in the course of the latest Grok launch. The brand new characteristic helps over 20 programming languages and permits builders to combine code immediately with code editors, permitting them to put in writing, debug and clarify code utilizing pure language.
