Thanks for your premature concern, but we'll be fine. Despite how it may appear to a layperson such as yourself, the value of human creativity is in no way diminished by the release of this tool or others like it.
Ok. The irony. Actually, after 20+ years in the tech industry, I will say this:
Your beloved corporations don't have a metric called “creativity”, they have a bottom line, and she has all the powers.
I am an artist by education and can confirm that creativity is overrated, the processes that artist follows and repetition towards a given goal deliver the results.
Whatever feelings or ideas you have, the actual craft is the medium in which you will deliver.
Reducing *The Path* to text input is not an artistic or craftsmanship process.
There is no creativity involved. May be, someone with more knowledge about the real process and broader visual culture will make more aesthetically right choices. But this can be automated too.
This is not a “tool”, like Photoshop. This is something else.
And all of you know this.
More than 50 percent of frontend code is boilerplate. CRUD apps follow similar logic.
Why not automate this repetitive processes first?
No. Corporations are starting the automation from the lowest risk crowd—the digital artists, they have low representation, no coherent community and are always ready to sell themselves for pennies.
Now they will compete with the machines.
And your time in this battle will come. Soon.
I hope AI gets these programmers jobs soon.
Then we all can go to the woods and have a good life, finally.