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Well, it’s going to lay waste to the coding profession. It’s hard to predict what’s going to happen elsewhere in tech.

Perhaps. I've been working on a project that employs keycloak for authentication/authorization. As time has progressed, the CVE reports have spurred the customer to request updates to the latest version to fix vulnerabilities. We have many custom interfaces to meet customer requirements that continue to morph as new releases arrive. Early in the process, I could write a ChatGPT query to get a quick starter template in Java to address a special issue. That doesn't work anymore. The trained model is now almost 10 releases behind the current keycloak. Answers offered are more often incorrect, so it isn't saving time anymore.

(Regarding AI laying waste to the coding profession.)
Perhaps. I've been working on a project that employs keycloak for authentication/authorization. As time has progressed, the CVE reports have spurred the customer to request updates to the latest version to fix vulnerabilities. We have many custom interfaces to meet customer requirements that continue to morph as new releases arrive. Early in the process, I could write a ChatGPT query to get a quick starter template in Java to address a special issue. That doesn't work anymore. The trained model is now almost 10 releases behind the current keycloak. Answers offered are more often incorrect, so it isn't saving time anymore.

True that. And in a way the AI coding is just a new layer of the same ol' same ol' that we've heard for decades was going to end the programmer profession. Remember how the code-filler feature in IDE's (in MS Visual Studio it's called intellisense) was gonna make it so that middle managers would do all coding? The same for adding DB connection tools within IDE's so they can be drag and dropped into a project. The same for Java. The same for...

Always there's a new feature to make it way easier to program. Yet here I am still earning a decent paycheck in quasi-retirement because the demand keeps growing.

Here's what Co-Pilot (AI) said on this matter in response to my question about something Nvidia CEO Jenson Huang said the other day:

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has indeed made a bold statement regarding the future of coding. During the World Government Summit in Dubai, he argued that due to rapid advancements in AI, learning to code should no longer be a top priority for those entering the tech sector. Here’s what he said:
“It is our job to create computing technology such that nobody has to program. And that the programming language is human, everybody in the world is now a programmer. This is the miracle of artificial intelligence.”
Huang believes that generative AI and natural language processing will revolutionize coding. Instead of spending countless hours mastering specific coding languages, young professionals should focus on expertise in other fields like farming, biology, manufacturing, and education. While coding won’t disappear entirely, upskilling to understand when and how to use AI programming will be essential.
In the future, native language might be the only language needed for coding12. So, while the coding landscape evolves, it’s essential to adapt and embrace these changes! 🌐🤖