[tartoran]

It’s still a tool though. If these AI tools simplified the work of sw engineers there would indeed be fewer of our ilk wielding these tools but a larger chunk of engineering would move towards maintaining and co-evolving these tools. I don’t really see an end to it while I do see an end to my own willingness to keep up with it.

[fragmede]

Whether or not Copilot makes it, that's just how tech industry is. First there were mainframes, then there were desktop computers, then there was the Internet, then there was the smartphone. Tech evolves and if you want to stay relevant, you've got to keep learning along with it. Or not. There's still a market for COBOL programmers.