I bet people said the same about AI when Watson won Jeopardy. A more real catalyst could be the recent tech sector cooldown. The again, would someone dare unionizing when your position could be cut.
It can write you a function/method/script if you give it an outline of what you need but it's awful at anything remotely complex and everything it spits out needs to be understood by somebody so it can be checked.
It can save a developer time but it only replaces people in that one person can be more productive which is absolutely nothing new.
The reason for that is because it's not AI, it's ML. It doesn't understand anything.
Those languages came about during the boom of websites and apps, however.
And more code was being written, rewritten and maintained by coders--now, instead, it's looking like it'll be generated, tested, analysed and regenerated.
If one developer can all of a sudden do the work of four, I think leadership is just going expect higher output from the same number of people.
If AI gets to the point where an end user can easily describe the app or website they want, however, then it won't just be the programmers who are in trouble.