There exist many no-code tools that do exactly what you say is impossible.
Do I program when I retouch photos in Photoshop? It's a no-code environment that an artist can easily learn and use with no programmers needed.
What's new here is that you DO NOT NEED TO BE EXACT with AI. AI knows human nature and human speech and it can infer what you say and what you need, if you're approximately close, and then make the exact code to do what you need.
Even if you need programmers, you now need 1/100 of the programmers you needed before. What happens to the other 99?
Does it matter whether programmers are 99% unemployed or 100%? Same deal.
> There exist many no-code tools that do exactly what you say is impossible.
> Do I program when I retouch photos in Photoshop? It's a no-code environment that an artist can easily learn and use with no programmers needed.
They're obviously not talking about all GUIs being impossible. The difference between Photoshop and a no code tool like what OP was referring to is that Photoshop doesn't attempt to be Turing complete.
> Does it matter whether programmers are 99% unemployed or 100%? Same deal.
AI completely replacing programmers is pretty much the definition of AGI. There's no point in worrying about your own joblessness in that scenario because the entire economy will either collapse or be transformed so as to be unrecognizable.
Until that point, I'm not personally worried about any efficiency gains putting me out of a job.
They're working on the 200 programs that suddenly became economically viable to create because of the vastly decreased cost of making programs.
It takes drastically less programming effort to create programs than it did 50 years ago. Did that decrease demand for programmers? No, it drastically increased it.
What you call a programmer today is on average nothing like the programmer from 50 years ago who'd fit Microsoft Excel in 80kb RAM on the original Mac.
Do I program when I retouch photos in Photoshop? It's a no-code environment that an artist can easily learn and use with no programmers needed.
What's new here is that you DO NOT NEED TO BE EXACT with AI. AI knows human nature and human speech and it can infer what you say and what you need, if you're approximately close, and then make the exact code to do what you need.
Even if you need programmers, you now need 1/100 of the programmers you needed before. What happens to the other 99?
Does it matter whether programmers are 99% unemployed or 100%? Same deal.