> For the businesses paying FAANG salaries, its not true, or they would be paying lower salaries and accepting not getting quite at the top of the human talent

> For the businesses paying FAANG salaries, its not true, or they would be paying lower salaries and accepting not getting quite at the top of the human talent pool. Maybe, but the FAANG interview process is pretty noisy, also not everyone at Google works on search, there's plenty of basic/repetitive work. In any case, AI coding will probably accelerate the bifurcation of compensation that we already see today - a small percentage will have even higher compensation but the majority will see lower compensation and higher competition. > But when you are automating programming, that transfer is (on a broad scale) something of a no op. I don't think this is quite right. Every rung of the ladder up the abstraction stack - from punch cards to assembly to compiled languages to interpreted languages - is qualitatively different. Even today there are separate people doing assembly on embedded devices vs web dev, and there's almost no overlap in skills. AI coding will be another step up the abstraction stack, and I'm predicting that it will be qualitatively different as well. ie. there will be a different group of people who excel at this type of coding, once the syntax becomes irrelevant. What it means to be a good coder will be different in this domain as well, probably with more focus on soft skills.