> maybe programmers will once again be valued

Constant media bombardment about ai replacing them and hordes of baristas rejoicing that programmers will lose jobs seem to indicate that programmers are highly unlikely to be valued, for a while. Something tells me though that all this will backfire and that indeed companies will need people to build things really fast. Even if ai did manage to write more than code at the level of an ai researcher, once everyone can do it, those that will do it faster will be again in demand. And those are, naturally, people with a programmer’s mindset.