Someone wise once told me, even after we have strong AI and don't need to program, he will still program, because the process of programming leads to understanding, and he will still want to understand things. The AI might be able to write the program better and faster, but it won't be able to help him gain the understanding he would have gotten from writing the program himself.

This is why you will learn to program, write the program, gain the understanding, train the ML system properly to reproduce your results, and then basically unlearn everything.

Why would you unlearn though? Eventually the AI will do all of the above as well. Maybe eventually programming will be like blacksmithing or weaving is today...

Completely obscure?

I was thinking more like the Renaissance fair today. You'd visit the fair that recreates a hack-a-thon in the late 90s. At the fair, you'd see the old programmer at his terminal, coding in Perl in an emacs window... instead of turkey legs, you'd have Fritos and Mountain Dew...