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Most software developers are doing nothing else than generating text - code. And if you take into account only this industry it definitely had significant impact on society just within a few decades.

Current AI is not good enough to replace software developers but in 10-20 years maybe will be good enough to replace just every second one == 50% of devs

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It will, if anything, cull the bottom performers. It's essentially an incremental improvement on a script which searches stack overflow for a query and copy/pastes the first result into your program. Having tried it on more interesting systems-level work it does little to nothing to augment productivity.

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