6 Reasons Why Programming Is Especially Exposed to AI Automation

Summary: While AI may transform our world in many ways, it seems to me that programming is especially exposed to automation. Below I share 6 specific reasons why. Many decades ago, people imagined that advances in cybernetics would give us intelligent machines in the form of humanoid robots, speaking in metallic voices and helping people with various physical tasks. Robby the Robot from "Forbidden Planet", a sci-fi film from 1956 Things have developed differently. AI in the form of LLMs can do some intellectual work and, together with other models, generate realistic speech, images, and video, while general-purpose robots manipulating physical world are still very clumsy and far for being able to help us in everyday chores. View Joanna Maciejewska’s post on X I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes. — Joanna Maciejewska Switching to programming, I still remember reading the book…