When doing X becomes cheaper with the invention of new tools, X is now more profitable and humanity tends to do much more of it. Nearly all code was machine-ge

When doing X becomes cheaper with the invention of new tools, X is now more profitable and humanity tends to do much more of it. Nearly all code was machine-generated after the invention of compilers. Did the compiler destroy programming? Absolutely not. Compilers and other tools like higher-level programming languages really kickstarted the software industry. IMO the potential transition from writing programming languages -> writing natural language and have LLM generate the program is still a smaller change than machine code/assembly -> modern programming languages. If the invention of programming languages expanded the population of programmers from thousands to the 10s of millions, I think LLMs could expand this number again to a billion.