When I first started using artificial intelligence, it was at the very beginning of what many think was just beginning to become widespread among technology-focused people. It's a GitHub Copilot program that will help you complete your code and give you good suggestions on what to do next (or maybe it didn't help you and was in beta). Unfortunately, the backlash against this was evident from the time. There was talk that this program was going to take people's jobs and replace them. As the program improved, this backlash got worse. This information went viral, and by the time it hit mainstream news, it read something like, “Programs are losing their jobs to this new Microsoft code editor.” (Github Co-Pilot worked from within Visual Studio Code; both are Microsoft products.)
Not only was this clearly not the case, but the program did nothing on its own and required a lot of expertise to use properly. Web and software developers spend less time writing the same lines of code over and over again. I wasn't taking anyone's job away. The problem was that the truth didn't really matter, it seemed like the program made it possible for people with no programming knowledge to program, thus eliminating the need for programmers.
