[throwaway_43793]

Maybe I'm a lousy developer, true. But I do know now that your code does not matter. Unlike any other creative profession, what matters is the final output, and code is not the final output.

If companies can get the final output with less people, and less money, why would they pass on this opportunity? And please don't tell me that it's because people produce maintainable code and LLMs don't.

[aristofun]

Exactly because lines pf code is not the ultimate result but rather a mean to an end - software _engineering_ profession is not at risk in any way.

If you don’t get it - you are not lousy, just not experienced enough or as I say - not doing engineering. Which is fine. Then your fear is grounded.

Because only the non creative professions like devops, sre, qa to some extent, data engineering to some extent are at _some_ risk of being transformed noticeably.