C isn’t unsafe like a kitchen knife, it’s unsafe like a folding knife with a hinge which collapses while you’re using it. We’ve been saying programmers need to

C isn’t unsafe like a kitchen knife, it’s unsafe like a folding knife with a hinge which collapses while you’re using it. We’ve been saying programmers need to be better for decades but it’s not just skill but also the undefined behavior, unsafe APIs, and backwards compatibility which have made that much less successful than hoped. Now, the techno-mysticism will eventually become true when we get the AGI you describe but that’s both far beyond what we have now and would immediately raise the question of whether it’d be effort better spent migrating to a less poorly-designed language.