I understand and largely agree to the gist of the article (the click bait wasn't required though ). I haven't tried the paid version of Co-Pilot. The free one was abysmal. But I believe GPT-3 (or something similar, even Facebook has released their competitor to GPT3) has the potential to start putting many developers out of business . Most of the people counter attacking this post are too much fixated on Co-Pilot and its current state and too much under-estimating the A.I models . GPT3 and similar AI models are approaching the stage where they can take regular verbal descriptions and create working code for most of the software that gets written today. Barring the exception of a few niche applications (where people need domain expertise from real fields like Math , Physics, Electronics, Psychology, Law, Biology , economics, design etc.), many "developers" jobs will be in trouble. Programming activities will instead shift to people who can better "describe" their problem to the AI.

It's ironic how the programming world touts the merits of declarative code vs imperative code but when that declarative code is about to reach next level , potentially causing job loss start believing its impossible 😀