It would be delusional to think that we won't all have BCI or similar chips in the next let say 30 years, I mean which human would want to be left out and have no incomes and no interconnected capacity? Working individuals will not have a real choice (with a few exceptions of course). Realistically we will control every device around us (and agents) with our mind in the next decade.

One thing he does provide is a large amount of jobs (directly & indirectly).

In reality, production systems will be released without inner depth of knowledge anymore, because no humans will touch tomorrow's codebases, solely AI, so everything has to be designed for AIs, not for humans at this stage, same for documentations.

Documentations don't need to be done ahead as well as they can be prompted live, docs should be just pointers to assist AI to help you gen the docs. In my team we stopped having dashboards pre-made entirely and if we need to know how many people signed-up today (just an example), then agent hit prod data directly (with read-only instant snapshots), we kept having this discussion and we ended-up understanding that inventing "tools" that we aren't even sure we need is useless in this era, you'd rather prompt everything (in loops, adversarial with the model zoo and so-on to reach 99% accuracy).

It's not a fantasy, I would bet that no serious engineer nowadays is putting in prod a codebase not AI reviewed meaning we already can't work on our own, we must factor in the on-going decline of human capabilities (at least developers) as well of course.

I'm not really saying this because of any sort of hype, but I can personally relate where I went from actually coding to NEVER CODE in less than 2 years, and everyone around me is the same thing, what it will be in 5 years?

Knowing that really, most developers aren't even using proper tooling yet so they are very slow compared to what they could be, I mean how many people we hear saying they can't even saturate an Anthropic Max 20 subscription? I saturated 7 accounts the last 2h alone, it's because they haven't entirely rethought their workflows yet, why do they even have "downtimes", it should be 24/7.

We are talking about "codebases" but realistically we won't even be checking the filetree of them soon, it will be all blind, containerized and verified with pseudo guarantees which are good enough to build serious things. We don't even write documentation for humans anymore, we need to look at the trends and the reality within companies, most developers became "callcenter agents" in a matter of only 2 years and literally most of them are not even using proper automated tooling yet as we can see the "vibe coding" trend with Claude Code which is weak, by far most work done daily by developers is already automatable entirely, but with exceptions, sure, but in a few years those exceptions will become rare.

There will be niche problems about legacy products, sure, but legacy products will all be replaced over time, if we think in depth, why do we even need that many languages, that many tools? Tomorrow AI will write 99% if not all code existing ("code" doesn't even matter anyway), so it's much better if it's specific to AI and not playing this dance where we think we are doing a meaningful human contribution on an "AI-made codebase".

For context, I have 2 decades of software dev behind me.

When I say we, I mean the general population really. There0-'ll always be the super bright ones, sure, but we gotta be realistic here. Most people already struggle to make any meaningful contribution because it's so hard to compete, and that gap is just gonna get bigger and bigger.

I agree the brain is pretty magnificent, but when it comes to stuff like language, figuring out if an idea actually works, building the next LLM, or running business stuff, it's pretty obvious we'll be inferior. AI can already innovate and come up with new things way faster than any human could, so at some point (soon) => the majority of contributions are just gonna come from AI, not from us.

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There is already a tipping point now in software engineering where we prefer to ask AI instead of humans because we believe accuracy will be better, see SO death as an example or just see the current state of online dev communities, it's getting deserted and between team members at work, we can also notice that people speak less and less.

Sad but I believe it.