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Do you have evidence to back these claims? Specifically that AI will be replacing software engineers any time soon and that Copilot exists explicitly to gather

• m_ke 4y ago
  I’ve been working on ML systems like that for the last 10 years, usually as tools to automate boring data entry tasks like tagging photos, automating food logging, giving dietary advice. At first these tools offer suggestions, but as more data comes in they start to do parts of the work autonomously, until they can handle all cases. Stable diffusion will replace a ton of paid design work, self driving cars will at some point replace most drivers.
• make3 4y ago
  Well it's hard to argue against the idea that the final aim of Copilot is to automate as much of software engineering as possible. I don't think that their aim is explicitly to replace humans, but to be as helpful as possible to developers, but doing that does exactly the other thing