Thank you for your thoughful response. Maybe I didn't say it clearly, but sometimes I like to acknowledge that we have geniuses in the programming field too, like a Ballard or a Jon Carmac. I enjoyed "Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming" by Peter Seibel, published in 2009. I'm going to read it again.

I'm impressed by Claude Opus! I haven't programmed much since I retired so this was my first test. For fun I threw in that I wanted to use wxWidgets for a GUI interface, which it flawlessly did. It left out something I wanted, so I told it to do it again but this time with a button to clear the list box, also done perfectly. If I was still programming I'd be concered about my future prospects as a programmer! I'd probably move to designing programs, more of an architech role, although I'm sure AI will make in roads there too.