A few years ago, before the advent of Copilot (and ChatGPT), I was telling my students their future as programmer was bleak, because most coding is either interfacing stuff, or creating an often incorrect heuristic to solve a single instance of a well known class of problem -- and all those activities could well soon be automated thanks to datasets like StackOverflow.

I now consider that ChatGPT for programming is a confirmation of my intuition back then.

Now, I understand that article as being too shallow again, by defining short term strategies for working with ChatGPT without considering a long term view on what it means for programming overall.

And I'm sure I'm not alone in finding the impact of ChatGPT (and future generative AI) on programming as obvious...