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freekh | 8 months ago

> It's entirely possible that we do become obsolete for a wide variety of programming domains. That's simply a reality…

It is not a reality since it has not happen. In the real world it has not happened.

There is no reason to believe that the current rate of progress will continue. Intelligence is not like the weaving machines. A software engineer is not a human calculator.

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weatherlite|8 months ago

To be fair he didn't say it is the reality now, he said the possibility is a reality. At least that's how I read his sentence. And yeah, I do think it's a real possibility now.