Programming runs along the back of mathematics. A field famous for spending centuries wasting time on silly games until those same silly games end up being the foundation on which modern society functions.

Even if LLMs completely remove the need for programming (a rather big IF), this is not time wasted.

Functional programming is a perfect pairing with AI-generated code because the type systems are generally more expressive than non-functional languages, which means the compilers can catch all sorts of errors.

As my mother used to say, we'll see...