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I don't know how the latest stuff from OpenAI will impract the career of average programmers. But regarding your last question: > how would you try to AI-proof your career? Learn to program from first principles.
My immediate guess is that these kinds of tools will greatly enlarge the productivity gap between junior and senior developers. Senior devs will be able (they already are) to generate code, at first boilerplate and gradually more complex code, and effectively work as planners and passive reviewers, in a similar way to how some companies just hire legions of juniors with some architects/seniors guiding and reviewing t…
That could put junior developers out of a job just like glass terminals put many data entry and server room operators out of jobs.
Who will review and maintain the code produced apart from a developer anyways?
If you think about it it's much less revolutionary in terms of reducing coding jobs than WordPress.
That said the best way to anything-proof this career that's so lucrative is to be frugal and set yourself up to retire early.
That leaves algorithm research, and so we can then spend 100% of our time on hard CS.
Funnily enough I was just asking chatGPT what it thought about it, so here it goes: >It is unlikely that AI will completely replace programmers. While AI and machine learning technology has advanced significantly in recent years, there are still many tasks that require human creativity and intuition, such as coming up with new ideas, solving complex problems, and making decisions that involve subjective judgement. Ad…
But they can help with around 20% of the coding part.