TFA's author is literally saying it may happen. He's using AI so he already caught the wave. He's augmenting himself with AI tools. He's not saying "AI will never surpass humans at writing programs". He writes:

" At this particular moment, human developers are especially valuable, because of the transitional period we’re living through."

You and GP are both attacking him on a strawman: it's not clear why.

We're seeing countless AI slop and the enshittification and lower uptime for services day after day.

To anyone using these tools seriously on a daily basis it's totally obvious there are, TODAY*, shortcomings.

TFA doesn't talk about tomorrow. It talks about today.

To be fair, the author phrased his point poorly in a way that invites confusion:

> "But for now, real programmers will always win."

"for now ... always", not a good phrasing.