> I swear the anti-AI crowd would all be picking to die if you each had a choice between immortality and living to 85.

It really depends on the cost of immortality. At the very least, it would have a psychological impact that some people may feel is undesirable.

> None of you is writing punch card programs.

> None of you are building vaccum tube logic.

Perhaps none of us, but some people certainly do. We are intellectual creatures. Some of us do things out of pure curiosity. Can we create multinational corporations out of it? Almost certainly not. Can we create businesses out of it? People do so all of the time. There is a market for produce from small farms, hand crafts, heck, even vintage computing.

> None of the things we build today are going to last. Your programs will be meaningless in a hundred years. Probably closer to ten years.

Try telling that to people who are trying to retire legacy systems. Sure, most of them have been modernized. Perhaps they have even been modernized to the point where none of the original code exists. Yet the core ideas still exist since it turns out to be incredibly hard to discard things.

The old ways of writing software will continue, even if they are nowhere near as popular. Call that irrational if you want. I call it human.