This is what scares me. I predict that instead of developers salaries going down, there will instead be fewer low-hanging jobs for developers to pluck. We have an increasing workforce of web-stack developers (front-end JS, back-end JS, full-stack JS) that, as far as I can tell, do a LOT of the same stuff in the same language (JS) over and over again. I don't know when, but I am very confident that that skillset will be replaced by AI Software 2.0 in the relatively near future. That will lead to a massive reduction of jobs and a massive influx of SaaS type web-stack software. Obviously that means an increase in demand for AI developers (but only until that cycle repeats on them) and "prompt engineers" and project managers.

I've put time into learning a skillset that I genuinely think will be unnecessary in the near future and the solution is to prepare for a skillset that has almost zero fiscal value in the short term. That's a tiring thought, haha.

I could totally be wrong, but that's a future that I think is highly likely and people who think they can't be replaced are kidding themselves. I need to learn lower level programming ASAP.