Following this logic, why not move further left?

Become a CTO, CEO or even a venture investor. "Here's $100K worth tokens, analyze market, review various proposals from Agents, invest tokens, maximize profit".

You know why not? Because it will be more obvious it doesn't work as advertised.

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ipnon 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You have to move up or down to survive. In 10 years we'll either be managers (either of humans or agents), or we'll be electrical engineers. Programming is done! I for one am glad.

	▲	oxag3n an hour ago \| parent [-]
		There are two extremes and spectrum in between: * AI can replace knowledge workers - most of existing software engineers, managers of all levels will loose their job and have to re-qualify. * AI requires human in the loop. In the first scenario, I see no reason to waste time and should start building plan B now (remaining job markets will be saturated at that point). In the second scenario, tech-debt and zettabytes of slop will harm companies which relied on it heavily. In the age of failing giants and crumbling infrastructure, engineers and startups that can replace gigawatt burning data center with a few kilowatt rack, by manually coding a shell script that replaces Hadoop, will flourish. Most probably it will be a spectrum - some roles can be replaced, some not.