[mr_toad]

Greg Egan wrote a short story about a financial salesperson who’s job was taken by an AI that was trained by listening to his phone calls with clients.

As a programmer though, I’m not worried. Every line of code is generating more code. Every recursive function, every loop, every piece of meta programming. Every script file that calls a Python program that calls c routines that microcode that call actual ops. It’s already all generated code generating more generated code.

When (if) we have full AGI that is capable of truly understanding a real world problem and kicking off a chain of code generation and is affordable, then I’ll be worried.