That’s short term thinking in my opinion. LLMs will not replace developers by writing better code: it’s the systems we work on that will start disappearing.
Every SaaS, marketplace is at risk of extinction, superseded by AI agents communicating ad-hoc. Management and business software replaced by custom, one-off programs built by AI. The era of large teams painstakingly building specialized software for niche use cases will end. Consequently we’ll have millions of unemployed developers, except for the ones maintaining the top level orchestration for all of this.
Every SaaS, marketplace is at risk of extinction, superseded by AI agents communicating ad-hoc. Management and business software replaced by custom, one-off programs built by AI. The era of large teams painstakingly building specialized software for niche use cases will end. Consequently we’ll have millions of unemployed developers, except for the ones maintaining the top level orchestration for all of this.