---
title: "Will AI Replace Developers? GitHub Copilot Revives Existential Threat Angst -- Visual Studio Magazine"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/will-ai-replace-developers-github-copilot-revives-existential-threat-angst----visual-studio-magazin-p9-qiiz8w
source_url: https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2021/06/30/github-copilot-comments.aspx
type: article
source: "Discover .NET"
published: 2021-06-30T22:38:45.728Z
updated: 2026-03-15T02:30:24.368Z
tags: ["ai", "devtools", "general-programming", "github"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 15
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Will AI Replace Developers? GitHub Copilot Revives Existential Threat Angst -- Visual Studio Magazine

**[Discover .NET](https://daily.dev/sources/discdot)** · 5 min read · 15 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

GitHub's GitHub Copilot is an "AI pair programmer" with code-completion functionality. The preview prompted a predictable revival of the years-long "AI will replace developers" theme on Reddit and the Hacker News dev-oriented social site. A Hacker News post on Hacker News generated 1,225 comments, while a Reddit post generated 532 comments.

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