I am Michelangelo!
It's interesting how it's almost exclusively people who have never written a line of code that claim programmers are doomed. And people who haven't even written even a short story since secondary school who claim the same about authors.
I hear the echoes of “there will be no photographers post smart phones”. Those who claimed “we don't need drummers anymore” when the drum machine was invented.
AI, or as we constantly have to remind people: large language models, are only barely generative. A semi-impressive copier, a Xerox machine with smoke and mirrors.
Some tasks are disappearing fast, yes, but LLMs can replace humans like robots have replaced humans in car factories in the past 30 years. Replacing many manual tasks, never ideating, never inventing new models and designs.
It amazes me how many people believe coding, or making music for that matter, is just the tedious task of pushing buttons in the right order. I think it's because those who use them for things they don't know how, feel like they have actually made the results themselves, and they want their “work” to be as valuable as that of the real makers.
It makes them look dumb. Grown ass humans claiming to be Michelangelo after half-assedly doing some colour-by-numbers, and then have the moronity to claim those who actually make shit will be redundant because of their little colour-by-numbers machine.
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