Even the chatbots now can write code that compiles and does what you tell it to. I’m a system analyst and can code but I am slow. Now I can give a design to any of them and get code that works in a couple of hours, with most of the time spent iterating toward the right result

In the past it often took a week of afternoons and late nights to turn an idea into working code. I can see why programmers fear for their jobs