I believe that the automations made possible by rear-view-mirror AI will unlock potential to do both old things in new ways, and to do new things we couldn’t have done previously. Some but not all of this is drone work, and we won’t have to do it anymore, or at least manually — we’ll have more time to do new things that matter.

I believe that the human imagination is able to consider combinations and compositions differently than AI, which will lead to assembling and creating as with legos at one’s whim and wish.

I believe that software development will change -- to say otherwise would protest the obvious. BUT I don't believe there is a finite set of problems in the world that will be solved once and for all by an ever-maturing statistical means to connect dots. Further, I think we're on the cusp of democratization of imagining and creating with tools that help us get beyond the limits of our skill sets as they currently are, and past the siloed methods that we've used to date that will — if not already have — become outdated.

I choose to be optimistic… with my eyes as wide shut as I can keep them…

For my part, I hope you're wrong and I'm right (hope springs eternal ;-)).

Nice/provocative article!