Is it irrational that this makes me a little anxious about job security over the longterm? Idk why but this was my initial reaction when learning about this.
Given the scenario where copilot and its likes becomes used in a widespread manner. Can it be argued that this might improve productivity but stifle innovation?
Im pretty early in my career but the rate things are capable of changing soon doesn’t sit too well with me.
I've been programming since the '80s. It's my opinion that the age of humans writing code is coming to a close. Perhaps another 20 years or so, with the peak in ~10; but I'm less certain about the timeline than the destination. There will still be a long tail, but most of the human work will shift to design and wrangling algorithms. The remnant will be hobbyist, such as Commodore 64 programmers today.
I expect most human intellectual activities of today (from coding to scriptwriting to medicine) can be performed by machines if the current trend continues.