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Do you think SuiteScript developers will no longer be needed as AI continues to advance?

yes ai will completely remove the need for any developers....
... as soon as business users can explain their requirements clearly and correctly.

which, given my 20 years of industry experience, is never.

as a more serious answer... I'd just refer you to what my boss posted last week, that seems accurate currently, but things are very fluid right now, so I wouldn't place any bets on anything just yet.

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Code Monkeys :monkey_face: :see_no_evil: (no offend intended to anyone) could 100% disappear, the ones that do not understand why or are unable to push back because a technical approach or UAC is fundamentally wrong and they just go ahead and write the code.
Those; I believe there is a good chance that they could disappear.

Good engineers with multi-disciplinary experience are a whole different story; the kind that can tell the accounting person that they don’t need a Journal Entry, they just need a GL Plugin and explain why.

The ones that can get a wish list or two sentence ticket and make sense of what the user believe they need and what they believe they communicated (on their dreams) and make it happen efficiently and securely.

(Personal opinion)… 

Writing the code was never the hard part. We've know this since, forever.

From Fred Brooks in "No Silver Bullet" 1986:
"The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build. No other part of the conceptual work is as difficult as establishing the detailed technical requirements… No other part of the work so cripples the resulting system if done wrong. No other part is more difficult to rectify later."

AI is creating a backlogged pipeline of detailed cleanup work generated by slop grenades.

Such a good quote.  :slightly_smiling_face:

recently discovered a functional person had written two scripts using AI, Great, except not really, because they were both written in SuiteScript 1.0.
:rolling_on_the_floor_laughing: I will enjoy converting them at some point in the near future.

I suspect AI will replace all knowledge work (and eventually, physical work). The hope is that it will take a bit longer to do so than the pundits suggest.