Nope - COBOL was supposed to make programming a minimum wage job back in the 60s? 70s? RAD environments ditto (VBasic, Clipper, DBase, etc), 'No-Code' - ditto..

Nope - COBOL was supposed to make programming a minimum wage job back in the 60s? 70s? RAD environments ditto (VBasic, Clipper, DBase, etc), 'No-Code' - ditto... 40 years later... I haven't been replaced. Aside from all the tech. challenges with AI - the legal stuff hasn't been figured out yet. Epic is banning AI generated assets from their marketplace due to copyright concerns, Air Canada was just required to compensate customers for chat bot errors (so, how would that scale to banking? medical? much higher stakes), and we're still figuring out what the rules are around training data. And that doesn't cover the tech. problems with hallucinations, bad code, etc etc. I anticipate AI just being IDE++ (good for code exploration, generating 'skeleton's for programs, etc) for at least another 10 years. After that, it might be more capable. In short - AI still needs an 'expert' to vet its work :-D