[qayxc]

> Could AI generated code mean the death of coding?

A rose by any other name...

"Coding" is the formalisation of ideas, algorithms, requirements, and constrains. This task is and will continue to be challenging. Whether you use "prompt engineering" or a formalised language doesn't matter all that much.

I'd be more interested to see whether such black-box model can solve programming problems like returning the best (by some criteria) N items from a read-only medium using a limited amount of resources (e.g. x amount of RAM and t milliseconds).

Given the immense amount of training data it's hard to distinguish a clever search method with some mixing and matching (i.e. copy-paste-programming) from general problem solving abilities.