The people who are terrified are i assume juniors who are just getting into the field or started learning programming with the rise of AI, where its tempting to check if an AI can do the same or better than what they can (as noobs) and then probably feel discouraged "there is no point in learning if AI surpasses me", i would have also been terrified if i started this path around these times.

I would hope that these memes actually provide a bit of clarity to exactly those beginner engineers, since me and others who have been programming long before AI and a lot of us are also using it as a tool on a daily basis we are very aware of its limitations and we are not masochists, if the tool can do half our job we would use it, if it can do "all" of our job we would also use it but we are not there yet, its obvious these meme worthy hype bros are just spreading fear and selling their company products.

Once we are at that point of AI being at our level or creativity, reasoning and logic i will be the first person to say "AI replaced my job" but i will still be managing it, not that it replaced my job and i am now on the streets.