About whether LLMs had made programmers obsolete by 2024, as some feared.
Has this happened?
Yes 28 (23%)Not sure 35 (28%)No 61 (49%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether LLMs had made programmers obsolete by 2024, as some feared.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
The compiler is still not part of the picture, when LLMs start being able to produce binaries straight out of prompts, then programmers will indeed be obsolete.
This is the holy grail of low-code products.