That's funny, but I also don't doubt that the industry, should it pursue this path, is going to be on a hiring spree to get engineers back to fix the mess they've wrought a few years from now.

It's the idea programmers should be last which is kind of arrogant/funny.

First we replace judges, doctors, police, generals, state officials, politicians, etc etc, and only then the programmer, the true foundation of our society!

(It shouldn't need stating that replacing any of these professionals with AI systems as they exist today is a terrible idea. Yes, even the politicians)

I probably wouldn't replace any of those with a system that excels in generating plausibly sounding bullshit.

LLMs are good at processing natural language. I think only a few human tasks are suitable to be fully replaced with AI. Things like translation might be a good candidate, with some proofreading.

Journalism is an obvious one, since most journalism today is just rewriting information gathered from other media or social media, the same thing LLMs do. Insightful opinion writers or actual investigative journalists would be an exception.

I could see LLMs easily doing the job of newspaper sports reporting, for instance, taking the stats and a few main facts from last night's game and turning it into a narrative article. It just wouldn't be good at long-form pieces that go into depth about motivations and strategy.

"Pursuing this path" kicked-off 2 years ago when the tech industry collectively conducted the first round of unprecedented-in-scale (until the following year) 'right-sizing'.