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The coding tool of the future? Dario Amodei thinks AI will write almost all code within a year and replace human developers completely. Altman believes it will become the world’s best programmer by late 2025. Marc Benioff thinks AI will automate almost all software engineering jobs. Zuckerberg believes AI will perform mid-level engineers’ work and make coding automatic. Andy Jassy thinks it will cut down the need for most corporate software jobs. Arvind Krishna thinks AI-driven automation will save billions and take over IBM’s engineering. And Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers believe machines will automatically write most code by 2040. Not true at all, say other experts. Yann LeCun, Stephen Wolfram, Boris Cherny, Simon Willison, Alex Gu, and Marselena Sequoia believe that despite progress in AI-assisted coding, current systems lack the reasoning, understanding, and reliability to autonomously perform most software development work anytime soon. They believe skilled human programmers will remain indispensable for complex, large-scale projects. Almost every strong public opinion about AI is extreme.
