> It's clearly not the MO that capable engineers want, but it's the MO that is getting funded right now.

Quite a few capable engineers really are that short-sighted!

The bigger question for the AI-techbro questioning "If AI writes your code, why use Python?" is "If AI writes your code, what use do we have for you?"

After all, there's dozens of people in the same business that have better domain knowledge but are unable to program - as a programmer the only value you added over random analysts and clerks was that you could automate shit.

Now you can't, so good luck competing with people who were already making half your salary when your largest value-prop is now gone.