ChatGPT Will Replace Programmers Within 10 Years

Predicting The End of Manmade Software

Adam Hughes
Level Up Coding
Published in
12 min readMar 1, 2023

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Feeling down — anxious about this future? That’s ok! You’re not alone and it’s not all doom and gloom. Check out my follow-up article, “Nervous ChatGPT Will Take Your Programming Job?”.

Update (4/26/23): This blog post was featured in Business Insider “The end of coding as we know it

Update (4/21/23): A video of a fully autonomous AI agents created python code. Literally replacing programmers. Not that smart, but it shows the how possible this is TODAY, well ahead of schedule.

Update (4/17/23): GPT-4’s abilities are mind-blowing and only strenghten what I’ve said here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c (29:30 mark). Anyone who thinks GPT is just absent-minded text completion needs to take their heads out of the sand.

Update (4/3/23): for a counter response to this article, please see Don’t worry chatgpt will not replace all programmers on AI Blog.

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