If that means that programmers will be replaced by "AI" then what am I supposed to do?
Programming is the only thing that I'm good at.
Does this mean that I will never be able to find a job (I just started my career fresh out of school).
I was in a similar situation to you during the dot com crash. For years I'd been reading about how all coding jobs were getting outsourced to India, and I was dreading entering the job market.
I never had any trouble with my job being outsourced, and years later I looked back on it and realized that the opposite had happened: Now it costs almost as much to hire a top dev in India/China as it does to hire one in the USA or Europe. The best of the best come to the USA and make a ton of money, and the incredible value that software engineers create feeds back into a healthy job market all over the world.
For one thing: Current "AI" can't actually program. You can't go to ChatGPT and give it an app idea and get something out. It can help you auto-complete code, but you're still the one programming.
For another: If we develop strong AI that can program (and for whatever reason it decides to hang out and be our slave..) the job of a computer programmer will go from what it is now (translate detailed technical requirements into working computer code) to something a little higher up the management chain. A coder 30 years from now might be doing a job that's more like what today's product managers or CTOs do. Rather than put you out of the job, it would just make you vastly more wealthy and productive.
If you showed a programmer from the 1950s python syntax and told them that all you have to do is write these words to build a program, they'd think it was artificial intelligence.
It's remarkable how far it's possible to go with a statistical language model like this, but it's not going to take your job.
If, as lots of people here are claiming, this stuff is going to "replace entire industries" it's going to take a while and will alter society radically, in ways nobody can predict and you can't really prepare for. If that happens you're on the roller coaster with the rest of us. Might as well keep doing what you enjoy and are good at for now.
However, it's much more likely that people are just getting carried away with an exciting (and incredibly impressive) technological advance and spectacularly underestimating the scale of the outstanding challenge. I certainly wouldn't recommend making major life choices on the assumption that AGI is imminent.