About whether ChatGPT's new voice and image features threaten software developers' jobs.
Has this happened?
Yes 117 (87%)Not sure 13 (10%)No 5 (4%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether ChatGPT's new voice and image features threaten software developers' jobs.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I don’t think any of this materially changes job outlook for software development over the next decade.
I use ChatGPT daily for school, and used Copilot daily for software development; it gets a lot wrong a lot of the time, and can’t retain necessary context that is critical for being useful long term. I can’t even get it to consume an entire chapter at once to generate notes or flashcards yet.
It may slightly change some aspects of a software job, but nobody’s at risk.