I highly doubt programming will ever "end". In the past "programmers" used to write raw assembly. Now the compilers do this, and programmers write source code

I highly doubt programming will ever "end". In the past "programmers" used to write raw assembly. Now the compilers do this, and programmers write source code for the compiler. In the future AI may write the source code, but we will still need to write higher-level specifications, which will likely be much more detailed than "develop a mail client app" or "develop an FPS". Even today, business managers who have programmers to do all of the actual coding, need to write detailed specifications (and when they write bad specifications, they get bad products); those specifications are in a sense, "code". But even those specifications are not detailed enough: when refinement is fast and cheap (with AI doing the coding) you really want to be able to customize the UI, add various features, properly handle various edge cases, etc.