That's the thing with LLMs though. Assembly developers can switch to Rust or something like that. But LLMs probably write C or Go approximately as competently as they write Javascript. There is no commonly used language one could switch to which isn't automated yet.

That I disagree with, though. First of all, Go is a garbage collected language, so can't be compared to C.

C is a language that is able to target basically every platform under the sun. It's versatile: User-space applications, kernel modules, and embedded firmware applications with an RTOS or even running on bare metal.

LLMs can produce basic C code, but (still) struggle with more specialized tasks.

They can be incredibly useful for skimming through long datasheet PDFs, but it's still up to the engineer to actually make sure the code it produces is actually good.