It isn't surprising that this is the way we conceptualize the potential impact of AI, but it's frustrating to see it tossed around as if AI disruption is a forgone conclusion.

AI will start re-defining the problems that code is written to solve long before we get anywhere close to GPT models replacing human workers, and that's a big enough problem by itself.

It used to be that before code could even be employed to solve a problem, it had to be understood procedurally. That's increasingly not the case, given that ML is routinely employed to decode things that were previously thought to be too chaotic to be understood, like brain waves and image pixel data. I don't know why we're so sure of ourselves that machine learning is just a gimmick and poses no real threat, just because anthropomorphizing it seems silly.