I think it's important to realise that for us, #softwareengineers/#programmers, the ultimate “threat” of developments like #OpenAI's #GPT3 is *not* a system that would translate {natural language → programming language → machine code}. (That would be like training a robot to understand the description of a scene, have it paint the scene with oil on canvas using brushes, and finally scan the painting to obtain a digital image.) A truly intelligent (digital) system will dispose of #programminglanguages altogether, or use much less human-friendly alternatives as intermediate structures to manipulate, such as AST's or bytecode. Just bear that in mind when you prep to recycle your career…