This is the usual „but they can’t do the hard stuff“ argument. It’s not the right lens - at least not for employment.
If you need three programmers to deliver a project, one doing boilerplate, one intermediate and one doing hard task. And the AI can’t do the hard task then you’ve still got two unemployed dudes.
So yeah you can make the technically correct argument that it still needs a programmer but it glosses over the coming storm in real world job market.
The only other option to square that circle is to assume that A) we suddenly need 3x as much projects and B) boilerplate guy can somehow graduate to hard tasks
If you need three programmers to deliver a project, one doing boilerplate, one intermediate and one doing hard task. And the AI can’t do the hard task then you’ve still got two unemployed dudes.
So yeah you can make the technically correct argument that it still needs a programmer but it glosses over the coming storm in real world job market.
The only other option to square that circle is to assume that A) we suddenly need 3x as much projects and B) boilerplate guy can somehow graduate to hard tasks