I've decided I like the "AI will replace programmers" thing because it lets me know instantly that the person saying it either isn't a programmer or has such little experience that ChatGPT can ACTUALLY replace him.

I use ChatGPT (or similar LLMs) regularly when I want to do some boilerplate, but most of the time it's useless if the thing I want to do isn't a completely self-contained simple function. LLMs are actually way more useful for learning new programming languages because you can convert code from a language you can understand to the new one or tell you the idiomatic way of doing what you want to do.

Any programmer who has any confidence in his own skill will see these technologies are helpful tools rather than competition.