Yeah the writing is on the wall. I'm a senior AI programmer for an AAA games studio that you probably know (I worked on a very famous RTS game). I have reduced the code I write by about 90% since ChatGPT 4 was released. My colleagues have also reduced their coding time similiarly. This technology is going to remove all the toil and any need to hire/communicate with junior devs. I imagine it will be the same for other seniors in the programming community. An industry where it's just seniors and LLMs within 4 years is likely, if not sooner, 2 years tbh, and if this slowly transitions to just LLMs and a small team of code reviewers on each site, that would be ideal. Programmers in my area (AI) have a lot of domain knowledge and specialization, we just use code for implementation.

So we don't care if LLMs replace coders by auto generating code. All the better for us. The people who are trying to support families ... by offering the world to write CRUD or maintaining codebases are doomed.... they are going to end up as the homeless guy on the street holding a sign saying "will code html for food"