It's not the end of programming

We've seen this cycle before with high-level languages or IDEs, where the bar for entry drops but the underlying complexity of building reliable systems remains the same.

>It's not the end of programming, in the same way as the invention of the printing press wasn't "the end of drawing by hand".

The printing press let you scale copies of something already drawn. That is nothing like what AI is doing here which is making drawing easier. It's more like people now draw by hand using pens and pencils instead of scraping small rocks against bigger rocks. Technically you can still scrape rocks together, but everyone opts for the modern convenience of better tools.

>It's not the end of programming, in the same way as the birth of big tech wasn't the beginning of programming.

Considering big tech brought programming to the masses arguable big tech did begin programming as a thing people do.

What would you be interested doing?

Become a manager? retire?

I write code in my work, and enjoy it. I also write less directly because of llm's but get to read more (which I luckily also enjoy, as long as I understand what is going on). I think you made more of a snide comment and deep down you actually enjoy it ;-). I mean, who doesn't like to code. It's awesome. If not, i hope you find something fulfilling sooner rather than later.

Every other time that programming has gotten easier we got more (often worse) code, though some folks who made their livings exploiting the inefficiencies had to adapt. This will be the same.

This isn't the end of programming, it's the beginning of your broccoli haired nephews ability to program. It's also opening a whole new world of opportunity to those with real skill.

A world filled with mountains of terrible code is a world that will reward the very programers who are trying to fight that future today.