AI Won't Replace Programmers—At Least Not Anytime Soon
I may not be the smartest person in the room, but after working closely with Claude and ChatGPT over the past few months, I want to share some observations. AI won’t replace programmers—at least not anytime soon. For AI to truly replace programmers, one of two conditions must be met: Accept that our codebases will eventually become completely unreadable to humans. Once no human can maintain the code, all bugs must be fixed by AI. Inevitably, the AI will encounter a bug it can’t solve, and we’ll need human programmers to refactor and essentially rewrite everything from scratch. ...