Together with my colleagues, I went from AI will replace us (programmers), to programmer using AI will replace one not using it, to it's not gonna have effect on programming industry (or at least it's not gonna have effect that is being portrayed).
I draw parallel to watching a move of adaptation of book to reading the book. Sure you can watch good adaptation of it, but the intricacies and details are lost, which you could get by reading a book. Same goes with programming with/by AI vs non-AI.
I also think we need check our biases. I found my own tweets from 2017 when Tesla unveiled Tesla Semi - I thought truckers will be replaced - given the Tesla Semi and FSD. Almost 7 years later, not only did it not replace them, we're nowhere close to those jobs being replaced. Same goes for radiologists.
I draw parallel to watching a move of adaptation of book to reading the book. Sure you can watch good adaptation of it, but the intricacies and details are lost, which you could get by reading a book. Same goes with programming with/by AI vs non-AI.
I also think we need check our biases. I found my own tweets from 2017 when Tesla unveiled Tesla Semi - I thought truckers will be replaced - given the Tesla Semi and FSD. Almost 7 years later, not only did it not replace them, we're nowhere close to those jobs being replaced. Same goes for radiologists.