Augmented rather than artificial – and that’s a good thing

In the past year, year and a half, a lot has been said, written and claimed about artificial intelligence. It’s going to take over our lives, it’s going to take our jobs and it is going to make a lot of jobs superfluous. Of course, things are never that black and white, but there’s some truth in most claims for sure.

One of the areas where AI is said to have a lot of impact is in creational and creative jobs. That includes software development or at least the part where writing code is concerned. Since this is also a domain I was trained in many moons ago, and where I still work, it makes sense to have a look at what the impact could be.