The compiler was supposed to end programming too
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A hrih.si essay argues that AI coding agents repeat a seventy-year pattern: FORTRAN's 1954 report also promised to virtually eliminate coding, yet it moved the work up a level. Cited data shows review becoming the bottleneck. Faros AI found teams with high AI adoption merged 98% more pull requests while review time rose 91%. METR's trial of sixteen developers found a 19% slowdown, though that is one small study. The claims are cited without sources, and the 2031 scenario is the author's guess.