To be optimistic in the medium term, the spread of AI code generators among novices will put pressure on languages and tooling to become even more idiot proof.

To be optimistic in the medium term, the spread of AI code generators among novices will put pressure on languages and tooling to become even more idiot proof. That's not a bad thing! You AI assistant may not be able to get everything right within its training data and resource allocation, and you might be too inexperienced to know what it did wrong, but languages and toolchains can adapt to better spot/describe/resolve the characteristic errors of using them. It starts an arms race that ends up with better compilers, linters, debuggers, analyzers, "debugging assistants", etc. That change ends up being a positive one for everybody, but will take long enough that we will absolutely see plenty of new ugly messes in the meantime.