i’m sort of a Luddite so take this with a grain of salt.
I don’t see this going anywhere.
If it’s really good and we can actually have 1 developer instead of 2 now why would any developer want to do this? this would basically be a piece of automation that diminishes the value we are creating.
If it’s crap it’s going to create mountains of verbosity and code written to pump up the LOC numbers. It’s terrible. After that you’re gonna end up maintaining and enhancing what an “ai” spew out.
I’m not buying the argument this is a problem that needs solving. It’s in the same vein with self driving cars. It looks impressive, it’s good PR, it’s absolutely insanely hard to get right and the benefits (even if we get it right) are questionable.
you need to be curious about why things in a certain way or why they don’t work, to take them apart, to continuously ask why
along with curiosity you need to learn. ALL THE TIME. you job learning is never done. there are fundamental things that will not change with time but a lot of things will and mastering anything will be a lot of work.
and last: growth. you need to tackle bigger and bigger problems and understand more and more in order to not get into a dead end career-wise. your goal is that by learning basic building blocks (programming languages, frameworks, tools) you get to work on or learn more advanced building blocks. the abstraction level you work on should go up
also GP was half serious/half joking and was talking about some point in the future, not today