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Train for what?

1 September 2026

AI and other technologies are making many jobs redundant.

Latest "endangered career path" is computer programming, apparently.

The online world is full of stories about how lay-people are now using AI coding agents to create amazingly complex and capable bits of software with a suprisingly little amount of time and effort.

My own experimentation with coding agents suggests that while they're not perfect, they're also not bad, not bad at all.

Given the pace at which AI is evolving, I have no doubt that the traditional "computer programmer" as we've known them for many decades, is definitely an endangered species.

So what other job titles will soon be obliterated or massively reduced due to ever-improving technology?

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