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anticensor05/06/20251 replyview on HN

Well, my comment was on the 100 years to replace programmers.


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Retric05/06/2025

“in well under 100 years”

I don’t think AI will let programmers be anywhere close to 1,000x as productive in 10 years. That wouldn’t just need AGI but deep changes to how organizations function.

Hitting 100+x in 30 to 90 years is much harder to predict.