Then this will inevitably lead to a shortage of experienced programmers in a decade or so's time. Then what?
Or is the plan that by then the AI will be improved such that it can progressively replace experience as the experience disappears anyway?
And once the experienced programmers are gone, who will create the material for the AI's to be trained upon?

With all the random crazy things the Trump administration keeps implementing and the even crazier ways they often implement them and the haphazard ways they communicate them, then consistently change them as they haven't thought through what they are doing it is going to be it is going to be easier and easier for the scammers to scam people as increasingly nobody knows what is actually going on and what is legitimate and what is not.

"And this is clearly a sign of how incompetent their Democrat governor is. I'm sending in the National Guard now!!!!! Oh, it's a Republican governor. Well it's clearly evidence of how desperate those Democrats are to rig the next election. They're traitors!!!! and I want them locked up."

No no, the numbers are great, the greatest numbers we've ever seen. It's all the fault of those woke business owners who are deliberately not hiring people just to try and make Trump look bad. No doubt those woke employers were put there by Biden as well and it's also all his fault.

Or they will have a whole heap of partly built power infrastructure that is just abandoned. Takes years to get that stuff built. Will the bubble burst before they are completed?

I'm suspecting this is where we are headed but we don't have the shiny new technology fad to move onto yet. (I'm just waiting for someone to mash up AI and blockchain, imagine how much hype you could muster up over that)

This may work in the short term as we have an existing pool of experienced programmers that can take on higher roles and evaluate the code put out by these AI. Over time however those people will dwindle and if we don't have the entry level jobs training up the next generation of experienced programmers then this could lead to a conundrum.
Will we be so accustomed to AI slop by then that we just accept the inefficient / bloated / potentially error prone in interesting ways code it produces as good quality and the enshitification of our products will accelerate (without our even realising)?
Idiocracy here we come!!!

I believe that this falls into the same category as eliminating paper straws and disencouraging EV's.
His wealthy oil donors need a market for the oil that they want to "drill baby drill".
I think the general gist is to create an environment that needs more fossil fuels to create a market for his mates.

What I would love to see is for Meta to claim that it was the AI that made them do it. Blame the AI and then claim that because they were just following the AI's orders it is the AI that should be sent to jail. And they didn't read any of the content, only the AI did so it should be the one to be punished.
And to show just how angry we are with the AI, here, we put it on an SSD, you can take it and put it in jail for the next 2000 years.

I'd take his comments with a grain of salt but he could be not far off.
As a population, we are arguably getting dumber, so we are helping to meet AI halfway.

No,

What you have to realise is that Disney has already created 'Hour of Code' activities which are really not much more than adverts for Disney franchises. In fact, incredibly effective adverts as you have to interact with them. Now they want those "adverts" to be a part of every students classwork all the time so encouraging all students to have to learn to code/ have to play with your adverts is incredibly powerful.

I really believe Disney couldn't give a stuff about coding. This is just more greed and just another way to make education the marketing arm of yet another corporation.

This seems to me like it was designed to look good PR wise but never actually succeed. Which seems to be the case with a lot of these "teach the kids to code" schemes.

I live in Australia and I would like to see us go down a similar path.

If the UK proves it works I really hope it spreads elsewhere and also leads to the end of the massive profits these companies are amassing. I'm sure there profits will still be quite sizable but this should make it a bit more reasonable. I'm not an economist so correct me if I'm wrong here but it seems many countries are not in the best of financial states at the moment and each of these corporations taking $billions each quarter out of economies without realistically contributing back is a contributing factor in this? If this type of taxing spreads globally it could be a big factor (amongst several others) in getting economies back on track?

Something I have sometimes thought about is what happens when all these jobs are replaced?

If a large amount of the population doesn't have work, and a significant other chunk is worried it may soon join it. Then they either don't have money to spend, or are scared to spend what little they have. Once this gets over a certain point then businesses lose a large amount of their paying customers, leading to further job losses, and falling profits and snowballing the situation. Governments also lose out as revenue from taxes decreases sharply (and as such may not be able to support the unemployed). Those who do have the money are also particularly good at not giving it to the government.

What happens then? Do governments collapse and the uber wealthy step in and say 'we are your new overlords'? We effectively go back to monarchy?
Or do we have massive uprisings as this time we don't have uneducated peasants at the bottom but somewhat educated people who can understand what is happening and also use technology to collaborate? Do new companies spring up, willing to offer products at reaonable prices and take business away from the greedy ones? Does traditional currency get set aside and replaced with new ones, causing a reset and effectively destroying the wealth of the wealthy? Or something completely different, taking into account factors I've missed?

My guess is that they will get some ads put together with catchy jingles and get some media attention with *experts* praising how great it is and how it frees you from those *evil* Google and Apple folk (who we already know are intent on farming your information) and also will lead to cheaper prices. Then they will get their partners to run a heap of specials in store for using CurrentC for the first few months. A large chunk of Joe averages will sign up to get the specials and after a while the habit is formed.

Yes, most people in the tech community are concerned and understand why they should be but the majority of people aren't in the tech community and unfortunately probably don't care about security because that *expert* on TV told them it was very safe and, more importantly, they got to save a few dollars.

It will be interesting to see how Google and Apple retaliate (and I really hope they do in some way).