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To be fair, we are at a point where most users will never need to program anything as most needs are already met by existing work. The whole "there's an app for that" marketing had a lot of truth to it.
Also most student-age people today who would have become programmers 20 years ago probably won't, because AI will be generating most code. The definition of "programming" will change to writing and tweaking effective specs for AI to generate code from. Back in the 80s and 90s I liked to say our ultimate goal as programmers was to eliminate our own jobs. Well I'll be darned...
What's funny is AI is learning from developer code to write code. If it runs out of this dataset it has to eat it's own output. This is a recipe for disaster.
50 years ago people thought everyone would be able to program using BASIC, now you think everything will be able to program using AI. It seems nothing has changed in 50 years.
Well, reading comprehension hasn't changed. I said "most" not "everyone". Amazingly the world isn't binary.