To write functional code you (usually) have to understand a lot of things (the problem you're solving, the overall architecture, the implications of your code).

To write functional code you (usually) have to understand a lot of things (the problem you're solving, the overall architecture, the implications of your code). I don't think any of the current AI tech demonstrates any kind of "understanding." The image-generators are closest, but if AI-generated images were code, almost all of them would be unusable. I think coding jobs are safe until AGI. That being said, I think copilot and similar can fill in a lot of blanks, because we often solve the same problems repeatedly. (I haven't used them FWIW). They're like a library of solutions, not a brain that invents a new solution.