Rise of the machines - AI replacing programmers in 3 - 5 years.

[Niya]

I said this at least once here on these boards. I'll say it again: This is a good thing for programmers.

AI cannot replace programmers because AI cannot think creatively. AI is really good at doing grunt work. Programmers can use it to boost productivity by giving it all the grunt work like writing boilerplate code. This can free the programmer to do more of what he does best which is to think creatively.

Programmers also use Google a lot as a reference for information. AI is far better in this role than classic search engines as you can hone in on exactly what you want instead of having to wade through mountains of text just to find the paragraph of information you really want. The only disadvantage here is that AIs tend to hallucinate, so you have to double check whatever it tells you. However, this will only improve over time.