Even programmers could lose their jobs to computers

Drag'n'drop application builders have existed for a long but they all have the same shortcomings. You need logic in there and GUI's are an awful way to read and write logic.

Edit - In fact, as an industry we've been trying to automate ourselves for as long as it's existed, so far to no avail.

Drag 'n Drop have always had shortcomings, as for AI...

I think this CommitStrip sums it up: [0]

The punchline for those that don't click:

> Do you know the industry term for a project specification that is comprehensive and precise enough to generate a program? Code. It's called code.

Programming may change, though I doubt that will be coming in the near future, but it will always exist.

Programming is the art of change a specification into a form that can be best read by a computation device.

[0] http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensiv...

Don't be stupid.

I could make a circa 1995 website trivially using modern tools.

But who wants a circa 1995 website in 2017?

No matter what you give em, they only want more, more, more.

Which is, of course, fine with me.

So we should be conserned about AlphaGo and Monte Carlo Tree Search-based Systems writing code? Yeah, that doesn't sound like a clickbait article...

I'm seriously concerned with the "it's magic!" pictures that texts like this paint of current AI. I wouldn't dismiss that the face of the industry could change drastically someday in the future, but it certainly won't be for the reasons listed.

90% of what I do when I program is try to figure out what the heck the business people meant. Ambiguous and conflicting requirements, vague ideas, and best guesses as to the direction to take the product(s) are going to be hard to overcome. Throw in a "we don't know what is possible" problem, and I think we are still a long, long ways off from an AI that can replace us.

who will program the computers that replaced the programmers?