Just as a side note, at my university about half the CS people are in the AI track. I would guess that number will keep increasing. There is also a separate major that kind of focuses on AI/psychology that is pretty popular but I am not sure how many people are in it. A good number of the students have some kind of "AI startup". Also, although it violates the honor code, I would be willing to bet many students use AI in some way for doing programming assignments.
This isn't to say you are wrong but just to put some perspective on how things are changing. Maybe most new programmers will be hired into AI roles or data science.
This isn't to say you are wrong but just to put some perspective on how things are changing. Maybe most new programmers will be hired into AI roles or data science.