AI tools are reshaping programming, automating tasks from bug fixing to full code generation, and leaving many developers wondering if their jobs are safe.

Yet, while coding as we know it is indeed facing disruption, the creative, problem-solving essence of computer programming is likely to remain a largely human endeavor for the foreseeable future.

This won’t necessarily be terrible for computer programmers — the world will still need people with advanced coding skills — but it will be great for the rest of us.