[AnimalMuppet]

Was assembly a "slow erosion of our responsibilities" compared to coding in octal?

Was a compiled language a "slow erosion of our responsibilities" compared to writing assembler?

Was writing in a garbage-collected language a "slow erosion of our responsibilities" compared to manual memory management?

The better tools let us do more, faster. They let us waste less time on the trivial, and spend more time on figuring out how to actually build what we were trying to build. They didn't reduce the need for programmers - far from it.

GPT will probably be the same. It's a force multiplier. You can write more in less time. That will make people want software that they couldn't dream of before, because it was too expensive to build. Net programmer employment will probably go up, not down.