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Coding Sucks Anyway — Matt Welsh on the End of Programming

This month https://www.mdw.la/, a former professor of computer science at Harvard, spoke at a virtual meetup of the http://www.chicagoacm.org/ (ACM), explaining his thesis that ChatGPI and GitHub Copilot represent the beginning of the end of programming. But don’t expect to continue your career as an actual programmer, he says, because machines are taking over that role.

Welsh came off the top rope at the start of his presentation, claiming that “computer science is doomed.”

It was GitHub Copilot that made Welsh fundamentally reassess the meaning of computer science.

Basically, he only sees a couple of roles for humans once programmers are phased out: product manager and code reviewer.