[Jonty30]

You are correct, because it’s at an early stage. But it is saving the software companies expenses, because they have the bulk work done for free by a machine. The software engineer only has to read the million lines of code and correct. He doesn’t have to write them first.

The time is coming where the error rate of the machines in programming will start to shrink as it learns the rules, resulting in less engineers and technicians.

[Lazamataz]

There is another angle: Specification to AI. You certainly cannot verbally issue a given specification, not to the level of detail on, for example, the system I work on in the Fortune 50 I am happy to be employed in. You really have to type it, so you don't miss anything.

That written specification, for the system I work on, would be about the size of the novel "War and Peace."

Someone has to do the specifications, and it is best if a person versed in software engineering does it.

[arthurus]

Fewer engineers and technicians.

[Albion Wilde]

The time is coming where the error rate of the machines in programming will start to shrink as it learns the rules, resulting in less fewer engineers and technicians.

But there will always be grammar nannies on FR...