How will AI change software development?

By Dorai ThodlaInformation and Intelligence

How will AI change software development?

There are some obvious ones. Some of them are already in various stages of development.

  1. Better code search (ideally semantic search)
  2. Great IDE integration (like Co-pilot)
  3. Automate some mundane tasks like document generation, test generation.
  4. Better code analyzers.
  5. Better tools customized to individual programmers’s need.

The benefits I am looking for (very speculative at this point) are:

  • Enabling higher order thinking
  • Different approaches to solving software problems (not sure what that would be).

How do you think software development change within the next 3-5 years?