[Rochus]

Well, just let it make a transpiler, e.g. from Oberon90 to C99. I gave this task to Devin and after two days of round-tripping and the LLM increasingly entangling in special cases and producing strange code with more and more redundancy, I stopped the exercise, went back to square one and wrote it myself based on what I already had.

I might be convinced by predictions like the posted one as soon as an LLM is indeed able to independently and correctly solve such a problem, or even add a code generator for yet another target to my compiler, and produce decent code, without my permanent guidance and testing.

It might be true that industry requires less software engineers some day, but it might also well be that they continue to need as much engineers or even more than today, and these people generate ten to hundered times more output together with LLMs than today. Who knows.