> Did all the people who used to do easily automatable clerical work remain in those roles? My words were pretty precise. Current version of AI only works as t

> Did all the people who used to do easily automatable clerical work remain in those roles? My words were pretty precise. Current version of AI only works as the automatable part of programming, like writing boilerplate and implementing some algorithms already known. Accountants still must know how to do by hand everything that their programs do and currently are mostly data entry clerks who connect proper invoices to proper accounts and verify that everything works properly. But one or maybe two times a month something is not right and then you are very glad you have an accountant or two at hand. Similarly this will be with programmers - a lot of boilerplate and glue code will change into "implement X with library Y and output in format Z" prompts, but I think the most exciting (for me) things like actually solving problems will be left for us programmers.