Journalists & executives see you as a sort of savant who spends all your time encoding & decoding the little bits and bytes - mostly a construction worker. They correctly recognize that we ought to be able to build some sort of robot that does this for you - why do it by hand?
They don't understand that this AI was built decades ago and has been improved on several times over: Compilers & Interpreters. Furthermore, you don't need billion-dollar neural-network supercomputers, just a vanilla laptop.
It's because of how you talk about the job, though. We automate every other kind of "coding" - why can't we automate yours?