This reinforces the comparison to compilers. Modern compilers produce better assembly code than almost every human programmer. Despite that, there are way more programmers than before compilers existed.
The job of a programmer is partially to automate away the current job of a programmer, and we've been successfully riding that curve at least since the days of punch cards.
The job of a programmer is partially to automate away the current job of a programmer, and we've been successfully riding that curve at least since the days of punch cards.