It's quite amazing how divisive the AI topic turned out to be in HN.

My opinion is that AI proponents extrapolate too much and too optimistically; they always assume linear or simply uninterrupted improvement, and they assume they breadth of AI will increase as well. I see no proof for any of those so far.

Time will tell, obviously, and they may very well turn out to be correct. I just wonder why people get so worked up about it.

Personally I also don't understand why people want the programmer profession to cease to exist but oh well. I guess envy and schadenfreude are factors. I wouldn't know because I don't wish anyone unemployment.