> All the while I acknowledge that there is something there that will change programming — just not as radically as the US-based doomsayers think.

It has changed programming radically, already. Not sure how much he thinks US-based doomsayers think it will change.

> AI can copy, it cannot innovate.

Is this falsifiable? Is there an example of an AI output that the author would agree verified that the AI innovated, if he or she saw it?