The devil is in the details, as always. There's no downhill slope from where we are now to "AI does all the work." It's an uphill battle, just like automation

The devil is in the details, as always. There's no downhill slope from where we are now to "AI does all the work." It's an uphill battle, just like automation at large, and it will never truly end. Software has been eating the world, and AI will eat the world, but humans will shape how that happens, and there will always be new opportunities, new challenges, and new levels of abstraction. AI will enable us to solve bigger problems. Picture beautiful cities integrated with nature: flower gardens, fruit trees, self-maintaining ecosystems. Picture spaceships capable of interstellar travel and asteroid mining. Picture advanced personalized AI doctors who can detect disease just by scanning your face and can cure you using AI-discovered techniques. There's a huge amount of coding (AI assisted) to bring us to that world. I understand the nostalgia and fondness for memorizing syntax, but there are more exciting problems to solve, and we're on the verge of solving them. If programmers are problem solvers, then this is shaping up to be our most exciting era yet.