There is still a significant technical hurdle to overcome: position a programming problem as a machine learning problem. If we can take a semi-formal compilable

There is still a significant technical hurdle to overcome: position a programming problem as a machine learning problem. If we can take a semi-formal compilable spec snippet as a feature-set, and an AST subgraph as a labeled point, and bash that into tensors, then yes, a lot of code monkeys will be out of a job. All this hype of job automation of waiters and truck drivers - software engineering will be the first job to be "roboticized" - it has the least meatspace moving parts.