About an OpenAI code-generation demo and whether programmers will lose their jobs.
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About an OpenAI code-generation demo and whether programmers will lose their jobs.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
When AI can reliably convert business-speak into efficient bug-free code, everyone will be out of a job, because the business owners will ask it to write them another AI to replace every other task their business does.