>It's not the end of programming, in the same way as the invention of the printing press wasn't "the end of drawing by hand".

The printing press let you scale copies of something already drawn. That is nothing like what AI is doing here which is making drawing easier. It's more like people now draw by hand using pens and pencils instead of scraping small rocks against bigger rocks. Technically you can still scrape rocks together, but everyone opts for the modern convenience of better tools.

>It's not the end of programming, in the same way as the birth of big tech wasn't the beginning of programming.

Considering big tech brought programming to the masses arguable big tech did begin programming as a thing people do.