> The jobs growing are the ones where the work product is judgment about what code should exist.

And how many people do you need for this? There are many roles where people are literally hired for their programming/engineering skill. Modern LLMs _largely_ commoditize that skillset.

There are not that many novel things to do, and even if there are, you don't need too many people to do them as LLMs give you more and more leverage over execution details.

> There are not that many novel things to do,

I am currently work on embedded / low-level / devtools and there are tons of novel things to do. Perhaps the "programming" skills are not needed as much, but demand for "engineering" is as high as ever.

Maybe it's the case in web dev? TFA shows that the number of "web developers" is decreasing strongly.