First of all,.. incredible. I would not think this would become possible so fast. Also ofcourse as a programmer a little worrisome. Though I do not worry that

First of all,.. incredible. I would not think this would become possible so fast. Also ofcourse as a programmer a little worrisome. Though I do not worry that much yet. We are talking about finding a solution an incredibly well written unambiguous specification. Including examples and a known solution to test against to boot. The specification here is just a program using English as its programming language. Also we are talking about a puzzle specifically made to be solved by computers. They are not real world problems (I don't really buy that I am actually helping some elves to be honest). If we want to replace programmers with AI somebody will have to write these specifications. And why do it in a verbose and ambiguous language like English, why not safe some effort and do in in say, Haskell or Java etc? Usually the input we get as programmers is more on the line as 'Make this faster', 'Make it stop crashing', 'Make it possible to do X'. Certainly AI can and will assist with this though I think it will still take some time before it replaces this.