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> If there’s ever a day where there’s an AI that can do these things, then I’ll gladly retire. But I think that’s generations away at best.

People really believe it will be generations before an AI will approach human level coding abilities? I don't know how a person could seriously consider that likely given the pace of progress in the field. This seems like burying your head in the sand. Even the whole package of translating high level ideas into robust deployed systems seems possible to solve within a decade.

I believe there will still be jobs for technical people even when AI is good at coding. And I think they will be enjoyable and extremely productive. But they will be different.



I've heard similar statements about human translation - and look where the translators are now




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