If AI Is Already Writing Code, Will Programmers Lose Their Jobs? (2018)

Every few years, we hear of some new magical program, language or process that will make programmers obsolete overnight. In my own experience, this has been happening for nearly 40 years.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Last_One_%28software%29" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Last_One_%28software%29</a><p>As the old saying goes: &quot;Don&#x27;t give up your day job.&quot; We&#x27;ll be needing programmers for centuries yet.

Did assemblers result in programmers losing their jobs? Did compilers?<p>People continually write about a crisis in this or that without ever making a case for why there should be a big discontinuity rather than an evolution at a fairly uniform rate.

Until AI has desire, imagination and a sense of purpose, I don&#x27;t think programmers will be losing too many jobs right away.

how about this?<p>AI is writing code, so its not a far stretch, for AI to edit code, on the fly between hops, so whatever you send can be individually edited before the endpoint receives it.

Wondering how countries such as India will be affected by this.