People have been trying to sell gullible investors on "this will make programmers obsolete!" more or less since programmers have existed (_COBOL_ was sometimes

People have been trying to sell gullible investors on "this will make programmers obsolete!" more or less since programmers have existed (_COBOL_ was sometimes marketed like this). I'm... unconvinced that This Time Is Different (TM), especially after seeing the actual output of these tools. All of this seems to be predicated on "LLMs suddenly magically becoming intelligent", and it's just not at all clear why people think that might happen. Same goes for most other white collar stuff, even moreso for, say, lawyers and accountants (where, really, part of the job is _taking responsibility_).