The end of the age of the Programmer
Long ago digital calculators did not exist. Instead offices full of humans spent their days doing mathematics on slide rules assisted by charts of logic tables. The invention of the mainframe and eventually the digital pocket calculators eliminated those jobs. Yet today our civilization does more calculation than ever before. It just doesn’t involve humans in offices.
Today we face another cliff. That of the human programmer being replaced by an AI programer. For the last 40 years programming has been done by humans. The work of converting simple product requirements “Make the button blue” have been done by human hands. We don’t need to do that anymore. AI coding tools are quite capable of adjusting buttons for product teams. AI is quite good at writing for loops. AI is quite capable of building an integration with an external AI and plumbing it into the rest of the system. You can just tell it to do those things using english and links of examples.