People say that programmers using AI will create an even wider gap with ordinary people.

That's wrong.

Because programmers' world is different from ordinary people's world. At the same time, the programmer community is much smaller than the general population, and their needs are different. Programmers can meet programmers' needs, but not necessarily ordinary people's needs.

In other words, if programmers could create products that cover ordinary people's needs, then product managers wouldn't even exist in software production architecture.

When programmers use AI, they're playing with technology, competing with peers on technical skills, showing off technical prowess. When ordinary people use AI, they genuinely want to solve problems.