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Don't forget there were lots of things that are in standard libraries now that didn't use to exist back when I was coding in C in the 1990's. Nobody really writes their own sorting algorithm anymore -- and nobody should write their own A* algorithm either.

Honestly though, I recently asked Claude 3.7 Sonnet to write a python script to upload ssh keys to a mikrotik router, to prompt for the username and password -- etc. And it did it. I wouldn't say I loved the code -- but it worked. Code was written in more of a golang format, but okay. It's fine and readable enough. Hiring a contractor from our usual sources would have taken a week at least, probably by the time you add up the back and forth with code reviews and bugs.

I think for a lot of entry level positions (particularly in devops automation say), AI can effectively replace them. You'd still have someone supervise their code and do code reviews, but now the human just supervises an AI. And that human + AI combo replaces 3 other humans.