I think that it will put pressure on salaries, AI automation tools may not fully replace coders, but it will definitely make the work that used to take a two frontends, a UX designer, two backends to do, be able to be achieved with a frontend and a backend, or maybe just a single fullstack, so outside of whether AI can fully replace programmers, my thinking is that it doesn’t need to in order to have a negative impact on job availability on the short to medium term. Who knows, maybe what will happen instead is that we see a lot of tiny startups, which also sounds hellish in some regards. I’m also wary though of what sort of problems may be able to be generalized, or if I’m vastly overestimating the amount of edge cases that cannot be automated by adversarial networks. FYI GANs can already generate UX code given an english prompt and it’s a matter of time till they can generate finished CRUD applications, which will cover most IT work, but I don’t see it adjusting to whatever existing business idiosyncrasies without some form of human input. Still very bad!