Comment by Blackstrat

I've been reading these threads for a while and the one thing that is clear from all of them is that the individual is CHOOSING to surrender their intellectual expectations to the AI. You don't have to make that choice. Further, a developer's value increases exponentially the more familiar they become with the industry/domain of the company for which they are working. No, no human will ever "write" code as quickly as the machine. Nor will any machine ever understand what to build for a given application. It has to be told. As for the continuing level of abstractions? While true, the best programmers didn't depend strictly on that abstraction. They sought to understand the machine. One fundamental problem that I encountered in my later management years was the number of people entering the field that had no business doing so. Consequently, many lasted only a few years before giving up and trying something different. I retired from the business after 40+ years and I knew plenty of greybeards that I would trust far more than any existing "AI" solution.