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That's more well balanced opinion comparing to others I seen here. I also believe that the golden age with 250k+ salaries with solving easy problems will be gone in 5-10 years. Most people look at this AI improvements at current state and forget that you are supposed to have a profession for 40 years until retirement. 250k+ jobs will still exist 10 years from now but expectations will be much higher and competition much bigger.

On the other hand now is the best time to build your own product as long you are not interested only in software as craftmanship but in product development in general. Probably in the future expectation will be your are not only monkey coder or craftman but also project lead/manager (for AI teams), product developer/designer and maybe even UX/designer if you will be working for some software house, consulting or freelancing.