Most creative output is duplicated effort: consider how much code each person on HN has written that has been written before. Consider how, a decade ago, we were all writing html and styling it, element by element, and then Twitter bootstrap came along and revolutionised front-end development in what is, ultimately, a very small and low technology way. All it really did was reduce duplicate effort.

Nowadays there’s lots of great low/no code platforms, like Retool, that represent a far greater threat to the amount of code that needs to be produced than AI ever will.

To use a cliche: code is a bug, not a feature. Abstracting away the need for code is the future, not having a machine churn out the same code we need today.