I have similar feeling. What GPT brings is uncertainty. We don't know what it can do in next version. But in the mean time, it can generate infra as code if you feed info, it can analyze at least some DOS virus on the fly, it can at least be a function filler. Yes it never does anything perfectly BUT humans don't either. And that uncertainty makes one feel that in one day, and that day is not 50 years apart, but maybe 5 months apart, that it can surpass 80% of programmers in those tasks.
And yes, programming has a lot more tasks but essentially they are common in one or another. I don't know. My job is obviously in danger right now and I don't see an easy way out. What am I going to do? Shift to another junior role that GOT may take over this version or next version? Or be a product guy or a marketing guy that I HATE and AVOID to be for my life? And how are those guys safe? Maybe I should go back to school amd study general relativity -- at least AI is pretty weak in abstract math and physics. I don't see a way that we cam be sure that is diagonal to what AI is capable of. The best thing I, no, you can say is, OK AI might be able to take 80% of my job away but my company still needs me to modify the code.
But what fun is in that? If AI can do say 50% of the task in a split of second, why on earth would your employer EVER pay you to initate a piece of code? It will pay you to debug and give it more prompts, but is it what you want to do?
But I'm probably paranoid. We will all be fine. After all every technological advance added jobs, right? We simply need to adapt then everything will be fine.
And you know what? I thought about something funny and almost LMAO -- all we programming guys, we have been working so hard to automate ourselves away. But schools, hospitals, governments and pretty much anything else that we think are as slow as dinosaurs will stay as dinosaurs.