As it currently exists, AI can can't create anything itself, it can only use what humans have created. Someone still has to write the code. AI will just be a tool, and developers aren't going anywhere.

This whole subreddit is full of people listening to the marketing people and ignoring the subject matter experts.

Workstations still require real switches and routers to get to that virtual network.

Also if I was gonna criticize the USSR the last thing I'd point at is their infrastructure, they built shit to last or at the very least be repaired easily.