The article is right: the low-tier tech jobs will likely not exist in a few years. These jobs mostly involve gluing APIs together. However, I think the assume

The article is right: the low-tier tech jobs will likely not exist in a few years. These jobs mostly involve gluing APIs together. However, I think the assumed usefulness of humans can be slashed even further. Right now, LLMs interface with languages and systems that were abstracted to a human level of understanding. There's an empty spot for new languages and frameworks with thousands of primitive "patterns", all represented by unique symbols, that could be put together much quicker by a LLM than by a human. LLMs have monstrously high associative horizons -- this means the way they segment info requires many more "boxes" / classifications / names, while humans top out at some arbitrary low value but are able to generate more / new categories on-demand. Instead of faffing about with a thousand examples to get some certain indentation right, it could be something akin to a spoken language but way more logical (or perhaps like a language with incredibly long compound words). Removing all computer programmers would require a bottom-up unity of the hardware stack with software, and that's an almost impossible ask by today's standards. Would need to start over and get rid of old systems in many areas.