Technology changes, people often don't.
Programmers will be around for a longer time than anyone realises because most people don't understand how the magic box works let alone the arcane magics that run on it.
Except it doesn’t fit. For a while now we’ve had access to basically all the knowledge in the world and most people don’t use it.
Why would people make the effort to build a website using AI when they didn’t do so with any of the existing no-code options available.
They won’t.
Will dev be exactly the same in 10 years time? No.
Will there be more devs than there are now? 100%
Will experienced devs make bank? Yes.
Pretty easy sell.
All signs point to it rapidly progressing towards this inflection.
Current agents are insanely good, every decent programmer using them knows this.
> All signs point to it rapidly progressing towards this inflection. Not really
> Current agents are insanely good, every decent programmer using them knows this. Also not really
If you find them "insanely good" you were likely doing work that was already very repetitive or broadly implemented by others.
They have their uses, but it isn't as pervasive as people believe.
You've set yourself up such that all I need to do is go "I'm developing complex veterinary software including integrations with laboratory equipment" and you're completely falsified. Why expose yourself like this instead of being intellectually humble?
The only reason that anyone has engaged with you here is because you're being intellectually arrogant.
Most of my day job is not about bashing out nextjs websites. In fact if I did that one day a year it would be a lot.