Some people will keep saying it even after the jobs have been 'taken away'. Also it's hard to objectively say that a job was taken away by AI except in some edge cases. If one person in an apartment can be a whole tech company by themselves with ai and never has to hire anyone then would that be an example of 'taking away code jobs'? It would be hard to prove they would have hired more 'code jobs' if ai didn't exist, maybe they just wouldn't have made their company.