Comment by falkensmaize
21 hours ago
We might cure cancer in 10 years. We could have Martian colonists in the next decade. Everyone might be commuting to work with a jet pack. Literally anything could happen, especially given a long enough time horizon.
You do realize that AI can already today write fairly complex software autonomously, don't you? It's not as if I haven't tested that. It works quite well for certain tasks and with certain programming languages.
Anyone who knows history knows that people initially tend to underestimate the impact of technologies, yet few people learn something from that lesson.