If they really have a general AI that does everything then pretty much everyone will be in the same boat whose job involves pecking away at a computer.

You're assuming a general AI will obey commands.

Well in that case we have more than our jobs to worry about.

Well the way I see it is we'll become like people who still play chess.

People still play chess, even though computers have conquered us in that domain.

Programming is still something we can spend time on. It's ultimately our choice after all.

The people who were doing it for money will move onto something else, and we'll be better off for it.

I've been doing frontend pretty heavily since 2012 so I have years of obsolete skills. jQuery ui, Backbone, Batmman.js, Ember, Knockout, Angular