Some years ago I was at the Burger King near the cable car turntable at Powell and Market St in San Francisco. Some of the homeless people were talking about the days when they'd been printers. Press operators or Linotype operators. Jobs that had been secure for a century were just - gone.

That's the future for maybe half of programmers.

Remember, it's only been three years since ChatGPT. This is just getting started.

From valued professional to surplus inventory just like that. Where does this process end? Because right now it's only accelerating.