[RevEng]

And yet there isn't widespread unemployment. Fewer farmers were needed so fewer people became farmers. Food became cheap and plentiful. Everyone else went on to do other things that they couldn't afford to do before. Software will do the same; we will make more software with fewer people and it will become ubiquitous to the point that people will just quickly generate whatever software they need rather than do many monotonous tasks manually.

[blell]

That argument does people who have invested decades of their lives into software engineering a lot of good.

[johnnyanmac]

That may work if the scope that AI wanted to takeover wasn't scoped to nearly every job that involves a screeen.