I feel like we’re not appreciating how amazing this is.
Once these systems scale up to attention over long pieces of program text (instead of just a few thousand tokens) most of software development will be near minimum wage, almost skilled labor.
You didn't mind when taxi drivers became obsolete. "I'm not a taxi driver, so I don't care!" We'll see how you feel when your economic value approaches zero.
For the next 10 years at least. Beyond that who knows. If we get strong AI then we have bigger things to worry about than one sector's jobs.
Another example is phone support. AI is already being used there, for example, in some banks (in Russia) you are first greeted by a robot if you call, and only if it cannot answer your question it will let you talk to the human.