" how would we feel if tomorrow, we woke up and some guys from stanford published new research on AI which can automagically produce working software given a set of requirements -- and they give it away for free." I would personally feel great because that would mean I could focus on getting the requirements part right instead of slogging back and forth through build software that almost but doesn't quite get the requirements right and then perhaps I would have enough time to work on extending the system to being able to capture requirements from users as well.