We could have AI assisted tools; e.g. very intelligent code completion systems that are trained on your's and everyone else's code. Sometimes programmers don't know exactly what they want, but when given a few plausible choices based on some initial code, can generally pick out what they really wanted.

Up from enhanced code completion, AI can become effective in coding even before they are human-level intelligent simply by creating a conversational feedback loop with a human; e.g. more to the right, more to the left, redder, yes! One could argue that the human is still programming, but they might not need any specialized programming training to use such a system. In that case, we really aren't as far away as many think.