I'm not really concerned about the availability of SW dev jobs, but I am concerned about the quality of them. For many companies the velocity (and quality, much to my chagrin) of the code you can produce doesn't really matter. What matters more is whether or not you're building the right thing, and too often you're not. These companies also tend to keep more headcount than seems justified, I think because they are gambling that a few employees are going to do something awesome but they don't know which ones. As AI gets better what will these companies do? I don't think they will fire a bunch of SW devs. I think instead they will embrace the slop and just take more shots, and crazier shots. It doesn't just give us something to do, it also gives a bunch of PHBs something to do.