[unfairly4820]

By the looks of how good Bing is with conversation. OpenAI has already said the GPT-4 "with great impact on functions like support, sales, content moderation, and programming." This sounds to me that 20% of the human workforce instantly got their countdown to termination to begin...

[SketchySeaBeast]

I can't see how you would employ less programmers just because it got easier. We're all not programming in assembly anymore, does that mean there are less programmers? Doing the basics in web dev is so easy it's table stakes now, does that mean there are less web devs?

It seems to me the only thing limiting software is budget. If more can get done in that same time more is going to get done.