Developers at Mistral AI in France are already no longer writing lines of code. The future of developer work lies in understanding the client's business in order to create a custom application tailored to their needs.
To me, that seems the rough description of a product manager!
Also something that requires heavy social skills. What will we, the vast nerd majority do?
Nerds? We are not in the 90s anymore. The stereotype of software engineers has changed dramatically (for better or worse). All my current and past colleagues are the opposite of the “nerd”: talkative, married, with kids, investing… none of them like starwars and the like