Is the AI Doomsday Clock ticking for developers? Dont fear the Reaper [Video]

“All our times have come… Here, but now they’re gone…”

I don’t think the boys of Blue Öyster Cult were crooning about AI and the fate of developers back in ’76. Then again, the album featuring the band’s most popular hit was titled Agents of Fortune.

Like… AI agents? A tad prescient, perhaps? Maybe this calls for a little more cowbell:

Despite its “grim” lyrical manifesto, (Don’t Fear) The Reaper is a head-bobbing, toe-tapping tune that lives atop the classic rock pantheon. And while it was penned well before the advent of modern digital technology, the song itself – a dark dichotomy of life and death – seems to align with the reality developers face in this new age of AI.

When I speak of reality, it’s a sobering one. Just last month, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, disclosed that more than 25% of the company’s internal source codeis now generated by artificial intelligence – and in …