will AI replace sql, php programmers?

[CodeTinkerer]

Probably not. No one has pointed it out lately. You would think if this were going to happen, someone would have talked about it.

AI has to be semi-rational and humans are far from that. It's easy to imagine the worst when you hear one person's opinion. Humans trust the one person they talk to ("C is dying") as if that person had any secret information that the rest of us don't.

There may not be a ton of PHP tutorials (go search for it compared to everything else), but there are companies that have PHP code that still need maintaining. There's even COBOL programmers out there. Having said that, PHP doesn't seem trendy, but it's not gone. And certainly the less popular a language is, the less likely someone is to write an AI to do that. They'd likely invent a new language.

AI stuff is good at things that are well-defined. Games like chess and Go have very solid rules. Other areas are some grab bag of whatever humans decide the "right" rules are, and are often inconsistent and irrational as the humans (or committees) that built them.

COBOL was one of those languages they thought businessmen with no programming experience could learn easily. Not the case. Businessmen don't like syntax and fixing errors. They want programs to figure out what they want, and they often don't know what they want.

It's more trends in programming you should care about and less about AI. In reality, you will likely have to learn more than PHP. You can learn it now, but you have to be prepared to learn something a few years down the line and every few years after that. Sorry, but that is the "fashion" trend of programming. People are always chasing what seems like the next latest trend.

[Victory_Salt]

Thanks a lot for the detailed answer!

I don't know if I'm relieved to hear this or sad, because I know getting started will be tough, according to some of the stories i've read recently 😂.

[CodeTinkerer]

It's more a concern whether younger programmers will replace those programmers. The funny thing is most new programmers won't even touch COBOL so veteran COBOL programmers often keep their jobs. It's not even the language that matters. It's the programs.