Gen AI has transformed the programming world

The world of programming today is transforming like perhaps never before. Generative AI, which came to prominence late last year with ChatGPT, is able to produce a lot of code which otherwise involves programmers writing them. What does this mean for programmers and programming? That’s what we asked some of India’s top technologists on the occasion of International Programmers’ Day – September 13. The day is annually celebrated on the 256th day of the year – chosen because this is the number of distinct values that can be represented with an eight-bit byte, and it’s the highest power of two which is less than 365.

Change is the only constant
My coding journey is reflective of the maxim: ‘Change is the only constant’. I started with FoxPro programming and have since worked with SQL, C++, Pl/SQL, Python, Spark, Julia and more.