While this is a very early version, something like it will eventually put most programmers out of work. Probably it'll be another language/tool and it won't be very soon, but at some point writing trivial software will actually be trivial.
It's ironic, being a programmer that automates things that people used to do manually, and kind of doing good but leaving someone unemployed. How fitting it will be to suddenly become mostly obsolete as a profession, due to programming being very easy or even done by AI. Dogfooding, anyone?
If we create an AI that can write software, no one in any profession will ever need to work again. So far all this has shown is it can places buttons on a form. Try building a path finding algorithm with it, that is actually performant enough to run inside a 60fps game engine across open terrain, and I think you'll find C++ isn't going anywhere yet.
There will always be room for programmers until an AI makes pretty much every occupation obsolete. We've been making trivial software easier for decades; and it's true. It's trivially easy to make software that was state of the art 20 years ago.
The problems are working with now are so much more difficult and will continue to be more difficult as software makes our job easier.
we still don't have something that writes reasonable html/css. do you think we're close to something that can put most programmers out of work? too optimist.
It's ironic, being a programmer that automates things that people used to do manually, and kind of doing good but leaving someone unemployed. How fitting it will be to suddenly become mostly obsolete as a profession, due to programming being very easy or even done by AI. Dogfooding, anyone?