[majormajor]

> I wouldnt be surprised if high end software devs (e.g. >1 million hit/day webapps where quality is critical) barely do anything different while the demand for devs at the low end of the market craters.

Over the last few decades the prevalance of more and more frameworks to handle more and more of what used to be boilerplate that everyone had to do for GUI apps has not significantly impacted the bottom end of the job market.

It's only, if anything, caused even higher demand for "just one more feature".

When's the last time you worked on a product in that space where the users or product managers didn't have any pending feature requests? Didn't add new ideas to the backlog faster than the team could implement?

Someone's gonna have to know just enough to make sure the LLM is producing shit that passes the (low) bar of adequateness. But that job will probably be even further away from the CS-knowing, performance-critical, correctness-matters roles than it is today. It's already a big gap, I just don't see the shit-shoveler job going away. The corporate world loves its shit shoveling.