I feel like programming language designers should see themselves as quite beleaguered at the moment.
Even prior to full AI replacement, a properly trained AI will be able to take English language and effectively translate it to machine code, assembly code, or C code.
It doesn't really make much sense to have the human at the this layer for much longer.
The reason why these types of claims are baseless is because of the key fact that if AI tech stopped progressing right now, it's already a game-changer once companies adopt.