Within the decade it's likely the vast majority of programming work will be done by AI, being considered too complex and dangerous to trust to human beings. So

Within the decade it's likely the vast majority of programming work will be done by AI, being considered too complex and dangerous to trust to human beings. So all such skills and knowledge, including SQL, will become equally niche as job opportunities disappear and schools abandon CS for prompt engineering and AI driven education. We're not there yet but it's going to happen.