The use of artificial intelligence to replace human programmers is an advancement on the ethical front since it results in unparalleled economic efficiencies, technology innovations, and democratisation of software programming. First, programming by artificial intelligence reduces the huge economic cost of software development in order to enable smaller firms and start-ups to compete favourably with big corporations. This economic empowerment makes it possible for life-changing applications such as medical care and education software to be developed quickly and at a lower cost. Secondly, the automation of repetitive tasks enables human programmers to be involved in high-level thinking and architectural design of applications. Every human programmer therefore becomes a technical director. Thirdly, just like the industrial revolution made it possible for physical labor to be replaced through automation in order to improve the quality of life of humanity, the incorporation of artificial intelligence in software development makes it possible to make significant progress. It addresses issues of engineering talent shortages across the globe.

Viewing people as dispensable is indeed a justified apprehension at the workplace. Nevertheless, arguing the unethical nature of incorporating artificial intelligence disregards the whole scope of the issue. It makes an appeal to emotion since it uses the audience's emotions rather than ethical values to convince people and assumes "Yes-Man" fallacy, which is a false assumption that people will resist any inappropriate order from their corporation due to the pressure they have to face. Indeed, technology takes away the essence of being human but adds an extra value by making humans overcome mundane tasks such as writing syntax boilerplate. Moreover, people working under excessive pressure tend to reduce their work's quality to the extent of meeting unrealistic deadlines while AI can always be consistent with high-quality work. The implementation of AI should not be interpreted as depriving humans of their dignity as people but as enhancing their abilities. Developers get an opportunity to concentrate on more significant issues, such as architecture and innovation. In the same way as any technological revolution transferred physical activity to machines, making humanity advance its standard of living, the implementation of AI in software engineering solves the shortage of talent and promotes its advancement. Using AI allows small companies and startups to participate in the creation of software that could change lives significantly.

Major incidents like CrowdStrike depend highly on emotional appeal and slippery slope reasoning in that implementation of AI will immediately result in complete system breakdowns when there is no longer any human fail-safe system to rely on. Actually, the implementation of AI technology will not mean a decrease but rather an increase in human involvement. Similar to how automated safety checks and version control tools have not replaced engineers, in that case, AI becomes a high-tech co-pilot which takes care of the syntax and repetition of logical sequences leaving humans with the responsibility of system architecture and coding. And human developers even under a lot of pressure miss bugs and create global system failures themselves. Thus, far from eliminating human control, AI implementation gives developers an opportunity to become high-level safety directors.