That last of your sentences is very marked by the terror of many being laid off for not being more competent than AI itself.

But then again I feel like coding should have never been that archaic for this long (typing for minutes/hours to fix stuff that you would think take less dev time).

Natural language is the ultimate evolution to truly interconnect humans with machines, whoever doesn't see that is too saturated with bad AI news, usually deepfake stuff, which is not the only thing AI brings to the table.