I'm not too worried. If anything we're the last generation that knows how to debug and work through issues.
I suspect that comment might soon feel like saying "not too worried about assembly line robots, we're the only ones who know how to screw on the lug nuts when they pop off"
If you're working in a modern manufacturing business the fact that you do your work with the aid of robots is hardly a sign of despair
I think what we're all learning in real-time is that human technology is perpetually aimed at replacing itself and we may soon see the largest such example of human utility displacement.
I briefly looked into this 10 years ago since people kept saying it. There is no demand for COBOL programmers, and the pay is far below industry average. [0]
[0] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/work/#3-salary-and-expe...
And most are too focused on learning whatever slop the industry wants them to learn, so they don't even know that it exists. We need 500 different object oriented languages to do web applications after all. Can't be bothered with learning a new paradigm if it doesn't pay the bills!
It's the most intuitive language I've ever learned and it has forever changed the way I think about problem solving. It's just logic, so it translates naturally from thought to code. I can go to a wikipedia page on some topic I barely know and write down all true statements on that page. Then I can run queries and discover stuff I didn't know.
That's how I learned music theory, how scales and chords work, how to identify the key of a melody... You can't do that as easily and concisely in any other language.
One day, LLM developers will finally open a book about AI and realize that this is what they've been missing all along.