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The compiler was supposed to end programming too
A new essay argues that fears around AI tools eliminating programming echo a much older debate: when compilers arrived, many predicted assembly programmers would become obsolete. Instead, abstraction layers created more software work, not less. The piece suggests demand for software expands to absorb productivity gains, and that today's anxieties about AI writing code may follow the same pattern as earlier automation panics.
Why now: Ongoing anxiety about AI replacing programmers is prompting comparisons with earlier automation predictions that failed to materialise
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