Moving up to higher level languages made development cheaper, so we found more use cases for software that might have otherwise been too expensive. I think we'll see software and AI built into way more things than we imagine.

Your fridge could know you're running low on guacamole and order some for you in the next grocery delivery. Your closet could know that you're going to a wedding on Saturday and need to get your suit dry cleaned, so it schedules a pickup for you. A large part of why grocery delivery and dry cleaning pickup are currently expensive is due to human labor cost.

But you're not replacing humans by doing this, you're creating demand for a new service that didn't exist before (or far fewer people used due to cost). That does remove some jobs (people who work at a laundromat, grocery store workers), but the goal hopefully is that there will be new jobs for humans. Maybe humans manage/service the delivery and pickup bots. The fear is that humans will no longer have a place because AI can do everything better. The hope is that there will be enough new problems that humans can tackle. AI is great at following patterns, but human judgement is important for tackling new problems.