I'm not saying devs are fucked. I'm saying hard times. Think of it as the transitioning period between where the old boss sacks you and the future new boss needs a minute to figure out they actually need you and are ready to keep you employed.

It takes time to wrap your head around what you need; we do not blindly follow LLM slop business plans just like we don't just blindly follow every sexy sounding idea a consultant comes up with. Tradeoffs still exist and need to be thought through. Like I said above: filling up a backlog is easy. But it'll take a lot of time for organizations to figure out that they need a staff coder. And what this person would bring to the org as a whole. The transition at the org level is not in the "let's gooo" phase, at least not for the orgs I deal with.

I think that the good news for devs is that with the productivity increase and if time is used well, the impact one can have upon an organization is much greater, and thus personal value increases, not decreases. But the used well is the distinguishing factor in this, and that is not something I see much readiness for. So it'll take time. I'm sure it will be fine, but I expect a lot of torn clothes. Perhaps turbulent times would have been a better descriptor.

PS: sorry to contribute to the negativity. It's not what I meant to do. I'm just not buying the "everything grows" narrative. At least not in the short/mid term.