Answer: They have been saying this for 60 years with every development if software engineering. Assemblers and compilers are an early form of A.I. called expert systems.

The number of programmers per CPU has been steadily declining over the decades. In mainframe days you had dozens of programers per mainframe. By the early PC days and the invention of retail software it declined to less than one programmer per computer. Now will trillions of CPUs in every king of appliance and huge server farms, there are many thousands ofCPUs per programmer.