This might have been true three months ago, but it isn't any more. Narrow margin business like independently owned coffee shops are already seeing consumables increase in price by up to 3x, which then leads them to have to add "tariff surcharges" that show up on their POS devices.
This is a bit backwards. Formal systems engineering is rooted in defining problems in natural language. The programming languages are normally used for defining the solutions, not the problems. Even if you're taking about TDD, the executable tests are still derived from natural language test case specifications.
This argument is predicated on what might become an outdated idea of software as an asset. If I can quickly generate software from natural language to solve a very specific problem, that software isn't worth maintaining, let alone publishing or selling. Its value to people who aren't me is low, and its defensibility against being copied by someone else with an adequate coding agent is even lower.
This is number of views, not number of unique users. It also likely includes views by bots. Notice how the viewership drops dramatically around 2014 once you could start downloading the database instead of scraping the site.
That's because the latest count is on the order of 3M views while the scale of the graph is 1B views, or 0.003% of the full scale. It's dramatic but not wrong if you believe SO's own data. Take a look at the raw data linked in the article.