I've been writing about how AI is likely to affect white-collar (or no-collar or hoodie-wearing) computer programmers for a while now, and one thing is clear: whether someone feels wildly optimistic or utterly hopeless about AI says more about their priors than their prospects. In particular, many of the people I already consider borderline unemployable managed to read Full-breadth Developers and take away that they actually have nothing to worry about. So instead of directing the following s...
