Predictions of AI Replacing Programmers Date Back to the 1960s
Lambda11 · reddit · 2026-08-05
A blog post highlights that predictions of AI replacing programmers are nothing new. As far back as the 1960s, a Turing Award and Nobel Prize-winning scientist forecasted the extinction of the programming profession, anticipating that computers would eventually program themselves. This historical context offers an interesting parallel to today's AI anxieties.
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