It's a false dichotomy. Something that
s "just another tool" can still have the capacity to end the world as we know it.
Steam engine and electricity ended the world as 99% of human history knew it. Nuclear bombs can very well end the world as we know it, or even end it altogether literally.
When we constraint the scope to coding, AI can very much end it, if not for everybody, for the huge majority of current professionals - they'll either be out of a job, or glorified prompt jockeys, and both cases would be "the end of coding as we know it" for them.
Steam engine and electricity ended the world as 99% of human history knew it. Nuclear bombs can very well end the world as we know it, or even end it altogether literally.
When we constraint the scope to coding, AI can very much end it, if not for everybody, for the huge majority of current professionals - they'll either be out of a job, or glorified prompt jockeys, and both cases would be "the end of coding as we know it" for them.