Indeed that’s the case but most of the programming problems are solved problems and unless you care how things are done someone with less/no knowledge can still make great use of programming to do what it needs to do.

Let’s not pretend you need to be programmer to use AI for programming like mathematicians need to solve math problems. Programming (most of the time)solves real problems rather than abstract constructs.

AI is already good enough to create the next “Facebook”(v1 and maybe v2 as well) without any real programmer. This makes the AI a big enabler and reduces the need for programmers vastly in the early stages of any business.

That being said as more online businesses will flourish these will require actual programmers after they get enough traction so the debate is still on if it will lead to massive layoffs in our industry.