I plan to retire in the next 10-15 years and then 'grudgingly' accept very large checks to teach noobs to be competent enough to replace the recently-retired seniors, since companies are and will continue to, foolishly not hire and develop junior engineers anymore. It seems to me like most firms have almost involuntarily placed an enormous unhedged bet on LLMs being able to do the job of senior and staff software engineers by 2030-2035, which I'd say is certainly a possibility but boy howdy is it going to be an expensive bet to lose if they're wrong.