The end of the pampered developer
Developers are freaking out about AI and they are right to do so, if they allow themselves the honesty of looking at their role in the workplace, they will see it will soon be automated and the premium that developers have demanded for a quarter of a century will vanish almost overnight.
It has happened before
Telegraph operators used to be the modern developers, they spoke the language of the machine, they served a very lucrative and essential job to increase the speed of business and open entirely new markets and then the telephone arrived, and all your morse cose wizardry was good for nothing.
Glassblowers, human calculators, weawers, typesetters they all came and went, they all had a peak where the world couldn’t get enough of their expertise and then a new technological discovery made them regular workers at best, obsolete at worst.
Technology giveth, technology taketh
Did the horse, our trusted transportation friend across the ages, deserved to be replaced by the car? No. Did your livelihood writing esotering incantations to make the machines do what we need deserves to be replaced by the machine hypnotising itself? No. Was there, is there, anything that could stop this train? No.
Transitioning
I don't have an answer, and neither does AI, doesn’t mean the change is not coming, and an answer we will need to find.