From goods and services they provide to others - now at lower cost.
>>There is no reason to assume that the AI employment catastrophe will end with coders.
It will not. It will also create a lot of new jobs. Stuff will get cheaper which means you will need to work less on average to sustain the same standards of living.
>> Instead of paying programmers, they'll pay the owners of data centers.
Yes but less. Paying less means more is left.