This. For instance, in my many years of programming, I've never had to manually allocate memory. There are still plenty of areas of programming where you have t

This. For instance, in my many years of programming, I've never had to manually allocate memory. There are still plenty of areas of programming where you have to do that, but I've had a pretty successful career so far without needing to. Thank you higher level programming languages. If AI works out, there's all kinds of things future programmers won't generally have to do (and all kinds of new programming paradigms that will be created), even as some of the types of programming we do now still be relevant in some cases (tuning the model like tuning the JVM?). If AI doesn't work out quite like that -- unable to truly lever up up the abstraction ladder -- well auto-suggest github copilot stuff will give us nicer, more powerful IDEs even if they don't end up allowing new programming paradigms.