The people who are positive about "AI" like Roychoudhury have warmed a lot of chairs:
https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/cs/people/abhik/
Of course, he also had a startup for an agentic "AI" approach for software.
I bet he hasn't written any real software like many academics. We should not listen to these people who chair conferences and let them dictate the future of real hackers.