Jobs for Humanoids: AI Output Checker Like a Digital Grocery Clerk
June 9, 2025
George at the Throwable Substack believes humans will forever have a place in software development. In the post, “What’s Next for Software,” the blogger believes code maintenance will always rely on human judgement. This, he imagines, will balance out the code-creation jobs lost to AI. After all, he believes, humans will always be held liable for snafus. He writes:
“While engineers won’t be as responsible for producing code, they will be ultimately responsible for what that code does. A VP or CEO can blame an AI all they want when the system is down, but if the AI can’t solve the problem, it can’t solve the problem. And I don’t expect firing the AI will be very cathartic.”
Maybe not. But do executives value catharsis over saving money? We think they will find a way to cope. Perhaps a season pass to the opera. The post continues:
“It’s hard to imagine a future where humans aren’t the last line of defense for maintenance, debugging, incident response, etc. Paired with the above—that they’re vastly outnumbered by the quantity of services and features and more divorced from the code that’s running than ever before—being that last line of defense is a tall order.”
So tall it can never be assigned to AI? Do not bet on it. In a fast-moving, cost-driven environment, software will act more quickly. Each human layer will be replaced as technology improves. Sticking one’s head in the sand is not the way to prepare for that eventuality.
Cynthia Murrell, June 6, 2025
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