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Rob Higgins • Edited

Not quite. In 5-10 years a junior level developer will be more powerful than any other time in history, and experienced devs might use powerful code completion tools as if they were syntax linters (they will just tell you that there is a more efficient option). Nothing will change for the masters, if you're willing to learn vim for fun, you probably won't be affected by the robot invasion.

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Charlie J Smotherman

Maybe, but I think you are under estimating the speed of innovation, and the amount of greed out in the world.

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Rob Higgins

Meh, I think most people are overestimating what machine learning can achieve. Computers are great at logic, but posses zero creativity. They can beat you at chess because there are highly defined rules, but in the real world there are too many variables to "just try all of the options and see what works". The difference between a developer and a great developer is creativity, and knowing how to make complex things into simple things so they can be reasoned about.