[c2occnw]

When we get to that point -- beyond a machine regurgitating reasonable facsimiles of code based on human examples, but actually designing and implementing novel systems from the ground up -- we'll need far, far fewer workers in general.

[briHass]

Exactly. Far before high-level software engineering is perfected by machines, a revolution will have already come for the vast majority of white-collar work. This includes all creative work as well, since software engineering has a large component of that also.

Coding is not uniquely vulnerable to AI, it just feels that way because initial AI products are targeted at technical audiences, and a large corpus of training data could be snagged with minimal legal burdens.