My job as a programmer has been successfully automated. The automation was done so quickly and cheaply that it absolutely floored me.

I have been programming professionally for the past 8 years. I have been an employee of my current company for 4 years, where I worked on a program using a specific subset of C++. My program automates a specific part of my company that was previously done by humans. <br><br>A week ago, a new program was created that automates my program. This new program is a generative AI model (I believe it is the Gemini 3 model, but I'm not sure as I don't have direct access to the code anymore). All the code for this program was written in-house, but our team was only a handful of people.<br><br>The new AI program is almost completely self sufficient. It takes user input, generates code, tests the code, and then deploys it. This process is almost completely automated. All that's left for humans to do is maintain the original AI model.<br><br>This absolutely floored me. I had no idea AI was this advanced. I didn't even know you could automate code in such a way. I feel both amazed and terrified.<br><br>The future is now, and if you don't get ready, you will miss the boat.<br><br>Edit:<br><br>For those who asked, yes the company is paying me 3 months of severance. I'll be using this time to upskill and look for new employment. I'll be in contact with them as they want to talk about contract work in the future.<br><br>Edit 2: Update:<br><br>I got a call from my old manager that I start contract work next Wednesday. The new model is breaking at the seams and they need me to check the base code because the deep learning team is stumped. Should be fun.<br><br>Edit 3: Update 2:<br><br>It's been a week since I started contract work. The generative model is still at a loss for why simple code calls are breaking. The general consensus is the model is too stupid to understand the complexities of what it's trying to copy/control. The upshot is they're hiring me back as a full time employee to make sure the model doesn't break too badly. <br><br>So we're back to square one here.