However, programmers will still be needed to guide AI toward productive solutions
So it would still be safe, they’d just be doing different work from what they do now. Same as how other advances in tech stacks made it so we do things differently now than 30 years ago.
Yes, that’s the key. I haven’t written assembly code since the 1990s, I use higher-level abstractions to get to the goal more quickly now. AI-generated code is just yet another layer of abstraction away from machine language.
So it would still be safe, they’d just be doing different work from what they do now. Same as how other advances in tech stacks made it so we do things differently now than 30 years ago.
People are very adaptable
Indeed. Do people still use emacs to code, for example?
Technologies evolve. People coding today in COBOL or Fortran are few and far between (but very well compensated).
Umm. Yes.
Hell yea we do use emacs!
No, all the cool kids use Vim.
Sure. Why wouldn’t they?
Not sure if that’s a serious question. Yes. They do. And many use it effectively. I use (neo)vim though because it works for me
Yes, that’s the key. I haven’t written assembly code since the 1990s, I use higher-level abstractions to get to the goal more quickly now. AI-generated code is just yet another layer of abstraction away from machine language.