I seriously doubt an "AI tool" could replace programmers. It might be able to create a toy, but it will fail very, very badly in the real world. Is the AI bubble finally getting to the point, again, where people are hyping it being able to do anything and everything?

This is not AI related, but there have been a number of failed "allow normies to code" type projects over the years and they have gone over about as well as you'd expect. The problem is more that "normies" cannot fundamentally grasp programming (even concepts like scoping), rather than lacking a "more powerful tool".

Also, ironically, the most powerful allow "normies" to "code" tool ever is Microsoft Excel.