Society adjusts after much fighting, Unionizing, and political back door payouts. Sure, we don't ride horses to work anymore, but I best not talk about reducing coal usage.
I yearn for the day that AI is better than a human at programming. In fact, I don't think it will be that hard given a lot of today's coders that I've worked with suck at performance, elegance, fault management, unknown condition exceptions... at least AI won't retort to pointing out such errors with "oh, yeah, I didn't think of that."