[lbhdc]

I don't think any common software engineering roles will be disrupted by ai.

I would speculate that a fair number of those prominent people are talking their book and have financial incentives for others to believe that is true and spend money on their ai products.

[div3rs3]

They're likely on the hype train, I'll give you that. Doesn't mean next generation won't be doing software engineering completely different from how it's done now.

[codingdave]

Of course it will be different. It is different now than it was 10 years ago, even without AI, and it was another flavor of different 10 years before that. Jobs evolve. That doesn't mean that we should be advising people to not learn. Keep learning, and be comfortable adapting as things change.