highfalutin... I didn't know that word :D

I actually believe otherwise, AI risks fossilizing our programming languages expressiveness and developper experience, shunting any possibility of improvements that is not envoded in its data set.

I think that for tools made for human consumption, AI is always going to be limited (even AGI). A case of "for us by us" is necessary.

Unless humans completely delegate the machine coding to machines and we only remain with a few legacy systems, never inspecting new machine instruction corpus. Inthe future that is.

As long as AIs are finite, they will need good concepts to help reduce the complexity of the world they are dealing with too.

They may need and/or prefer different ones than we do, but this stuff isn't going to go away. Your need to understand it may, but then, most programmers don't understand this and do OK anyhow.