"Coding, which we called "computer programming" 60 years ago, is the canary in the coal mine in terms of the impact of AI."

And before that

"Grace Hopper: [I started to work on the] Mark I, second of July 1944. There was no so such thing as a programmer at that point. We had a code book for the machine and that was all. It listed the codes and what they did, and we had to work out all the beginning of programmingand writing programs and all the rest of it."

"Hopper: I was a mathematical officer. We did coding, we ran the computer, we did everything. We were coders. I wrote [programs for] both Mark I and Mark II."

http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_Histo...