Comment by eslaught

The difference is that the abstraction provided by compilers is much more robust. Not perfect: sometimes programmers legitimately need to drop into assembly to do various things. But those instances have been rare for decades and to a first approximation do not exist for the vast majority of enterprise code.

If AI gets to that level we will indeed have a sea change. But I think the current models, at least as far as I've seen, leave open to question whether they'll ever get there or not.