Thing is, GPT is just another programming language. It no doubt brings a leap forward in approachability, like Javascript was a leap forward from assembly, but at the end of the day it still relies on programmers to use it. No matter how advanced it becomes, as long as it exists to serve the interests of humans, and not other machines, it is going to require programmers to describe what humans want to see carried out.

It is possible that everyone will become a programmer, like everyone has become an elevator operator, but unlike an elevator button press that takes milliseconds and you're done, does it behoove "the boss" to spend their day describing their ideas to GPT? I suspect, like today, they will still want to hire other humans to bridge that gap so that they can spend time doing more important things.

LLMs have been around since the 50s. Chomsky has plenty to say on them [1]. It's not half as rosy as the current hype cycle.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chat...