I do not know the answer to your question, since for me programming has become a lot more enjoyable being able to throw outputs of LLM's together and then being the glue in between with my expertise. Coming from my perspective, going back would throw me into a career with prospects which I started to lose passion for. Doing the same thing over and over again, spending weeks on stuff I have already solved many times over in different flavors, frameworks and languages.

I understand that some engineers/developers struggle with this change, but it also seems to be a personal take on ground breaking changes which are shaking up this career path; which are positive for some, and negative for others. Maybe we are on two different part of the spectrum, because I can't wait to have my job reduced to prompting and building even bigger things. IF it was not that way, I would have been close to a career change. No doubt, these changes will introduce new engineering challenges, which will be equally as exciting and in need of an engineering mindset as the previous paradigms have been.