Like most programmers, I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of programming. There’s a lot of chatter on the wild web that given LLMs can generate snippets, functions and even whole scripts based on prompts, and they’re often very good, that we’re headed to a world where human-written code may be less and less likely. We’re collaborating on code for now, but that won’t last. We will first alpha-go and then stockfish professional programmers out of existence.