The final paragraph gives a clue about how serious the authors themselves seem to take their claims: Machines writing code under human direction will only furt

The final paragraph gives a clue about how serious the authors themselves seem to take their claims: Machines writing code under human direction will only further improve our ability to explore the universe, enjoy life, and stream Netflix, especially if it saves us the trouble of learning how to make extremely heterogeneous systems work together. You go ahead and stream Netflix, I think I'll write some more code.