We're safe for now but we should learn how to leverage the new tech.
Some are safe for several years (3-5), that's it. During that time it's going to wreck the bottom tiers of employees and progressively move up the ladder.
GPT and the equivalent will be extraordinary at programming five years out. It will end up being a trivially easy task for AI in hindsight (15-20 years out), not a difficult task.
Have you seen how far things like MidJourney, Dalle, Stable Diffusion have come in just a year or two? It's moving extremely fast. They've gone from generating stick figures to realistic photographs in two years.
Being exceptional at programming isn't hard. Being exceptional at listening to bullshit requirements for 5 hours a day is.
Doesn’t apply too much to mesh generation but was certainly the case in image gen. Mistakes that wouldn’t fly for a human artist (hands) were just accepted as part of AIgen.
So these areas are much less strict about precision than coding. Making these tools much more capable are replacing artists in some tasks than CoPilot is for coders atm.