AWS CEO just told engineers: We will need tons and tons of software developers

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• ‘Internal demand for software engineers’ Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Matt Garman has pushed back against the widespread fear that artificial intelligence (AI) will eliminate jobs in software engineering profession.
• In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, he said that engineers will now have to get new skillsets to stay relevant in the future.“If the skill set that you really hang on to is your ability to write a good line of java code …
• that probably is going to be a less valuable skill going forward, Garman said.
• However, he painted a positive picture by saying that the industry will need more software developers who know how to build next-gen systems.“We are going to need tons and tons of software developers who know how to build systems, who know how to think about solving problems for customers,” he added.Speaking at Amazon’s “What's Next with AWS” event last...