FORTRAN was also going to end programming: IBM said so in 1954 (hrih.si)
An essay at hrih.si says AI follows FORTRAN's pattern, only faster: a METR trial found experienced developers 19% slower with AI while believing they were faster, and Faros AI data showed more pull requests but much longer reviews.
Commenters attack the analogy itself. One says compilers were first called "automatic coders"; another says a compiler maps input to output roughly 1:1, and an LLM does not.
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