Forget Programming. What is the Future of the Programmer?

Years go by and in the software development world we ask the same question: “What is the future of programming?”. For this answer we always had the hot topic of each moment. Cloud computing was a hot topic in 2010. When I was in college Big Data and IoT were the trend, then Deep Learning, NFTs and so on. You can even divide the eras of technology by looking at the trending topic of each period. But now in 2026 there is a topic that arrived in full force and is already the reality of the market and changed the technology field forever: Artificial Intelligence.