To be fair, that's the traditional mechanization story, and the story of the end of the guild system. Machines and time studies replaced the (transferable) knowledge of masters to no-skill hires who could be trained to do specific movements that gave them no transferable experience and no leverage against the employer. The outputs were worse, but they were a lot cheaper and the margins a lot higher (and squeezed out through better machines and time studies, not better employees.)

AI does not look like it will work like that, because the outputs to programming usually need to be precise. Instead, it looks like it may just be a revolutionary tool that it takes a long time to master, and gives the learner a skill that is entirely transferable to a new job.

Could programmers use it to create a new guild system?