Fuck AI

In that case it's not talking about "deskilling", it's about "not skilling in the first place".

But, those are completely different things. I was never skilled in riding horses, the way I assume my great grandparents were. I didn't learn how to use a sliderule like my grandfather did. But, I still learned skills that were valuable for the moment in history where I grew up. There's never any guarantee that a baby born today will get to the age of 20 with skills that are useful enough that someone will pay them to use those skills.

As for programming, it isn't some kind of nefarious goal to make sure that tomorrow's children won't know how to do it. It's an immediate short-term goal to try to save money by not having to hire people with specialty skills. If that gamble pays off, then it will be like using a sliderule. Kids won't learn it because it isn't a skill that's in demand anymore. If AI turns out to be a niche thing, rather than a massively transformational technology, then tomorrow's kids will learn to be programmers in whatever languages are hot in 20 years.