I think a lot of people who write about AI haven't been regular old, run-of-the-mill software devs in a while.
For small companies, or large companies broken into small teams, I'm not really sure why there's this assumption that AI will "take care of all the trivial code." Someone has to transmute the project manager's wishes into working code, and it's never going to be the product manager. From that point of view, whether I'm cobbling the code together from Stack Overflow snippets or using AI to generate it, my job hasn't changed all that much.
I neither fear the reaper nor do I dismiss the impact GPTs have had on the industry. I just don't think small development teams' mandates have changed that much, apart from a somewhat faster pace of development (work expands to fill the vacuum, after all).
For small companies, or large companies broken into small teams, I'm not really sure why there's this assumption that AI will "take care of all the trivial code." Someone has to transmute the project manager's wishes into working code, and it's never going to be the product manager. From that point of view, whether I'm cobbling the code together from Stack Overflow snippets or using AI to generate it, my job hasn't changed all that much.
I neither fear the reaper nor do I dismiss the impact GPTs have had on the industry. I just don't think small development teams' mandates have changed that much, apart from a somewhat faster pace of development (work expands to fill the vacuum, after all).