Will AI replace programmers?

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I'm sure most of you are now getting kind of annoyed by that question.

And no I'm not here to tell you of the different ways that AI will replace you or how it's going to take your job. Because I honestly don't think that it will. If anything it's going to make the development process much faster compared to before.

Take for example Github's Co-pilot. It's great but it still makes mistakes, and that's where you come in if you can't detect these mistakes while coding, you might introduce bugs into your code base that you might have no clue how to fix since you didn't technically write any of it.

And yes this does mean that some jobs will become redundant, since why hire someone and yet for almost half the amount of money you pay them, you can subscribe to one of these technologies and ship products faster than before.

Let's be honest here if an organization can the same amount of value you provide for a service costing half of what they pay, they will pick the *cheaper one. Nothing personal, just business.

So what exactly does this mean, Well you have to get good at your craft and become so good that the organization you work for/at stills sees the value you bring to the table even in the wake of these new technologies. Because these technologies aren't going anywhere, they are just going to keep getting better.