Comment by soundwave106

My feeling is well. If standard CRUD coding gets automated nicely, my feeling is that many (at least some?) CRUD type coders could simply move into a sort of AI business analyst type role. To be honest, business analysis is already a fair bit of the CRUD coder type job. Current AI requires training data in order to learn what the rules are, which means that most likely they will need a team to formulate the rules in a manner that the AI understands.

If AI gets to that level where the programmer is completely replaced, well, regarding "the top" that "wants us gone"... many of them would also be gone. There's no reason a general AI of that power could not automate (to give typical "the top" occupations) much of finance, law, health care, or even management / executive work.