There's practical considerations with AI like it being a probabilistic layer and not deterministic in the way that compilers and deterministic, yes.

But the "letting go" point is I think about what people enjoy. Personally, I enjoy code. I've had jobs where I really enjoyed what I was doing because they gave me the opportunity to write interesting code. The end product wasn't interesting to me. I had a great job building tools for companies that build a very popular consumer product that I've never owned or been interested in. So the software we were building to assist in creating those products wasn't interesting to me in terms of what it is, but the job was motivating and interesting because of the technical problems I got to solve.

I think that's one of the big divides we're seeing in comments now. There are people who want to build things for the sake of the final product. They're happy because LLMs speed that up by a lot, at least initially. Then there are people who enjoy the process and craft of writing code. For them it's hard to let go of manual coding because that's the enjoyable part of the work.