I’ve tried some and it’s less powerful, annoying, you need proprietary tools because showing graphics is way more difficult to do than writing a parser, and you can’t store your “source code” or show diffs and commit your modifications. So, unless I see one which is free and open-source and good, I don’t really believe it will happen.

I think it’s a bit overblown right now like outsourcing 10 years ago, but it may change in the future and put people out of a job.

I am scared about junior programmers though. It feels like they will try to “learn” by reading answers from ChatGPT without actually learning, searching, thinking, and failing. Failing is good when you begin because you learn what works and what doesn’t. If everyone do this, we will have a whole generation of programmers who can’t produce good code or change it.

I already saw this trend on /r/learn_programming where half the posts were beginners asking simple questions that could be answered by “read a book,” “read the official tutorial,” or “use Google.”

Edit: I can add that this bad trend also happened in /r/programming and /r/coding where all the posts were either about technology (off-topic) or basic programming advice.