"an M.I.T. economist who was a co-author of the paper, said in an interview that a software developer’s job could change over the longer term, so that the human coder became a kind of project manager overseeing multiple A.I. assistants"
Really? An economist has the authority and understanding to say that? People are getting carried away by projecting the gains seen from AI assistants. They need to understand that they can't simply project some trends so linearly.
The same people saw cars and aeroplanes and said that we are going to have flying cars very soon. Nice projection of the trends!