> the era of super high paying programming jobs may be over.
Probably, but I'm not sure that had much to do with AI.
> Some types of manufacturing jobs are just gone
The manufacturing work that was automated is not exactly the kind of work people want to do. I briefly did some of that work. Briefly because it was truly awful.
Or… it still requires similar education and experience but programmers end up so much more efficient they earn _more_.
Hard to say right now.