but it was brief, shallow, and now about twenty years out of date. GPT-4 on its own is, for the moment, a worse programmer than I am. Ben is much worse. But Ben plus GPT-4 is a dangerous thing. I still feel secure in my profession. In fact, I feel somewhat more secure than before. ... The thing I’m relatively good at is knowing what’s worth building, what users like, how to communicate both technically and humanely. I suspect that ... we will think of “the programmer” the way we now look back on “the computer,” when that phrase referred to a person who did calculations by hand. Where is the value in being a “programmer” now?