[hderms]

It's possible that we could be replaced but it's hard to envision it would happen without a general AI.

Developments that are sophisticated, but fall short from truly replacing engineers, wouldn't have the predicted effect. Let's say a 20% improvement in the time it takes to produce software. Would anyone feel strongly, at this point, that this that would result in 20% of engineers being out of a job, or is it more likely we'd just produce 20% more software?