“we should obviate things I find distasteful, but my livelihood must be preserved”
Not really. I'd be extremely happy to be able to produce the same results with less work.
Why do you think neural nets will be bad at making UIs, data models, cruds, gameplay, audio, graphic engines, etc? There are already some compelling examples of AIs making progress on those kinds of tasks.
Yes, AIs can certainly generate stuff. But can an AI generate the specific stuff I need for this specific use case?
Probably not, although I'd be more than happy to be able to delegate work to our robot overlords.
Nothing is really a silver bullet so I guess the future of programming is really hybrid. Stuff like Github's Copilot.