For decades at regular intervals a new tech emerges and grand predictions are made that it will eliminate programmers. Not just the hype media either. I'll never forget one of my "professors" predicting this. After all this time I'm kind of sick of hearing it. Great for getting investor money etc.

"Silly Con Valley"

All along the way the number of programmers has grown, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of the workforce.

Thanks for sharing

Not that I dont think ChatGPT is cool it is

No, but it can speed up development work.

Does that mean fewer developers achieve the same?

Partly. Development time is only about 20-30%, most time is spent debugging and testing.

It's still a great new tool!

GPT will replace story tellers, writers and poets. I’m not even half sure of that.

context memory is far too low to even consider it right now. ask again in 5 years

Agree 100%. I personally think Sam Altman and the Open AI Team are geniuses. I'm tired of saying it but I don't think we can really understand yet how it will positively disturb this world.

People who can manipulate inputs for ChatGPT (or its successors) to generate working code will be called as "programmers" in future.

sadly, that's true.