[lmarcos]

Am I the only one who thinks that tech like ChatGPT and similars will only increase the demand of software engineers?

In the past, software engineers were dealing with punched cards (few engineers), later on they were dealing with assembler (more demand), then with low level programming languages like C (demand starts to increase), and nowadays engineers deal with high level prog. languages like Python, JS, etc. (high demand). As the technology makes software more ubiquitous and reachable to any aspect of life, the demand for people who know about software increases.

Maybe in the future software engineers will have to deal with even higher level languages (prompts?), but that would only mean that making software is easier than before and you'll see software even more ubiquitous than it is right now. Demand will go up for people who know about software even if the tooling seems like it requires less people with such knowledge.