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Sorry skeptics, AI really is changing the programming profession

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Sorry skeptics, AI really is changing the programming profession But AI agents aren't making programmers obsolete. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is now the CEO of Block, which runs payment services like Square and Cash App. On Thursday, he announced plans to lay off more than 4,000 workers — 40 percent of the workforce — and Block’s share price soared. “Something has changed,” Dorsey wrote in a t...
The strongest version of this narrative is that AI is accelerating productivity in programming and other white-collar fields, but the claim that it’s making humans obsolete is premature. The source acknowledges both the hype and the reality: AI tools like Claude Code are undeniably useful, doubling productivity in some cases, but they still require human oversight. The pattern here is a classic tension between technological optimism and skepticism, with some voices exaggerating AI’s current capa...