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Never. Programming is the job of automating yourself, and it has been happening for decades. Someone will be needed to enter these queries and orchestrate things


But will that someone still be a programmer? Or will it be a business analyst?


"Programmer-archeologist", to borrow a term from Vernor Vinge. I imagine the job would entail refining the prompts and doing some work yourself to chain together modules or legacy software, sorta like splitting the tasks with the AI assistant. Pair-coding with the AI, if you will.


'programmers' nowadays are Api-puzzle solvers.




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