[shaggerty]

I disagree. Programming is the act of interacting with AI (the compiler) in language (code) detailed enough to specify what we want it to build for us. As tasks become abstracted to a single click or line of code, the programmer is free to work at higher levels of abstraction.

[maushu]

It will reach the point that there are no more layers. Only idea => implementation.

[ben_w]

That requires the AI has a superhuman comprehension of natural language, and even then the answer may be "nope".

For example, someone I worked with kept asking for a button to be "wider", yet rejecting everything the programmer did to the button. Eventually the programer asked them to draw what they meant, and it turned out they meant "taller".

[dsp1234]

And yet if this was automated away, the "someone" would have just themselves drawn a taller button, and there would have been no problem (which is what the person above is saying by idea -> implementation).

[olewhalehunter]

not only that but it highlights the costs associated with human cognition, automated systems don't need to spend time making the buttons they click visually pleasing or ergonomic

[cmdrfred]

At that point just get your last few dollars together, give it to an AI and let it manage everything from there.

[shaggerty]

This can't happen unless the system makes a lot of assumptions about how to impliment the idea, which will ultimately result a in suboptimal implementation.