This has happened before.

When we went from assembler to compilers, this logic would have said, "So instead of being creative and finding ways to avoid hand-coding loops, you look for a way to spit out copies of loops faster." And the answer is, "Yeah, I do! I want the compiler to write the loop for me and get all the jumps right so I don't have to worry about it! Getting the jumps for the loop right is incidental to what I'm actually trying to write; I've got better things to spend my time on."

Note well: I am not arguing that AI will produce good code rather than multiple layers of garbage. I am merely saying that this particular argument is weak.

You're comparing an LLM to a compiler, which doesn't make much sense to me.

If my compiler occasionally output the recipe for vegan pancakes instead of working code I would definitely think differently of it.

The difference is that a high-level programming language abstracts away the duplication, whereas an LLM does not.

Comparing current AI to a compiler is a dogwhistle for white supremacy.