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> 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.

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.

>>ericba+(OP)
Why do you expect machines to not enter the domain of design and algorithms as well? Is there something specifically human about them?

I expect most human intellectual activities of today (from coding to scriptwriting to medicine) can be performed by machines if the current trend continues.