What's the dystopian future you fear in software and development?

Personally, I already see all the desktop environments implemented on top of a HTML engine.

I fear that at some point personal computing will be done in the cloud and people will just log into their "PCs" via thin clients.

Automation phases out all jobs but the people who automate the processes, but they all use open source modules rather than coding their own thing. Then a prolific open source automation coder deletes all of his modules, thus crashing all the automated processes in the world. No one can fix it because no one knows how to program anymore and no one can do anything anymore because it was all automated years ago. Then the prolific developer dies and their aren't any SAs to restore his repo so the world goes back to the primitive before times.

@projektaquarius alternatively all software becomes FOSS and programming becomes fashionable and hip with the aid of 3 week "learn to code anything in 15 minutes a day" so GitHub becomes just like Facebook complete with the (lack of) standards of moderation.

@projektaquarius last one I promise: the script kiddies and doxxers of Reddit and 4chan all learn how to code but maintain their current levels of maturity and morals.

@projektaquarius I'm crying and laughing at the same time 😂😂😂😂😂

@Pizza 😂😅😢😭

@Lahsen2016 nah. Prefer to be a grey hat. Felony charges, three letter agency watch lists, and bans on computer access are not appealing to me.

Slowly all code bases get joined and become so easy to use that everyone can do it. And people with horrible reasoning become coders and create obnoxious and horrible applications that slowly destroy the beauty that is coding. Because of this programs computers and systems become so combursome and decentralized that they stop using computers and networks and the ones that are left are so aggravating that only crappy paid smart people are made slaves to the companies that use them. Without being allowed to change them.

Everything is AI driven, so coding gets replaced with just telling some AI what to do, even if it is something ad vague as 'make AI better' . The good thing is that AI won't be like we thought, it actually doesn't go overboard to fulfill tasks. What frightens me is that I won't be able to continue coding, as it will be seen as a potential way to hijack the prolific AI.

Suddenly, some corporations start using their resources to absorb all other AI enterprises, and finally we'll have just one big corporation controlling AI. And don't get me wrong, AI corp intentions will be properly aligned with humanity's, the problem is that I won't be able to program shit, not even through AI. With universal income, all that will be left is videogames and movies. Which I like, but in excess it converts me in the worst version of myself. And I might as well just kill everybody.

@gitcommit sounds like a Wall-E fan theory.

@skprog isn't that actually happening?

Machine learning so no one ever codes again ;-;

@skprog @gitcommit they should do a movie about these

@SoulSkrix that's what I based it off of 😁

@c2wiki 😂yes it is. Slowly but surely

@theScientist yeah, right now when I think about the future I can't help but think about how huge AI will be. I wonder if there's another huge technology that will be as influential. Maybe CRIPR?

@theScientist I have been 😁

Also I am more afraid of people getting easier access to development and people on general than I am of AI. People are terrible