Getting rid of the programmer has always been the wet dream of managers, and LLMs are being sold as the solution.
Maybe it is
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Maybe it is
I don't think I'm sticking my head in the sand - an advanced enough intelligence could absolutely take over programming tasks - but I also think that such an intelligence would be able to take over _every_ thought-related task. And that may not be a bad thing! Although the nature of our economy would have to change quite a bit to accommodate it.
I might be wrong: Doug Hofstadter, who is way, way smarter than me, once predicted that no machine would ever beat a human at chess unless it was the type of machine that said "I'm bored of chess now, I would prefer to talk about poetry". Maybe coding can be distilled to a set of heuristics the way chess programs have (I don't think so, but maybe).
Whether we're right or wrong, there's not much we can do about it except continue to learn.