Your comment is a bit snarky, but absolutely true. I've been in the industry for nearly 40 years, and in that time I have NEVER directly programmed the computer

Your comment is a bit snarky, but absolutely true. I've been in the industry for nearly 40 years, and in that time I have NEVER directly programmed the computer - if I can define that as directly entering machine code, or even the mnemonic of assembler. The entire path of the industry has been about climbing up layers of abstraction. Back in the early 80s, for example, the hot thing was 4GLs, which was supposed to allow such a high level of abstraction as to put development into the hands of business analysts. Obviously that went nowhere. And LLM AIs are just one more step in this, albeit a potentially large one. As Carmack says, the real skill is to understand what you're trying to develop, how it relate to the needs of your users, and to apply this systematically. That understanding might be replaced at some point in the future, but that is not today.