Posts like these aren't wrong but they miss the forest for the trees.

A lot of software engineers don't write code at their place of employment because they enjoy spinning up pods to serve their Django apps - it gets them paid so they can then do what they actually enjoy.

What AI will allow these software engineers to do, is bypass their employers and serve customer niches directly, capturing more of the revenue themselves.

This isn't for everyone, specially those software engineers who do write code at their place of employment because of the pleasure of it, but its an unlock for those who couldn't just make the leap before.

And that's precisely where AI provides tremendous leverage and why the economy will expand rather than contract.

Find a section of customers your employer isn't particularly excited about serving, find out if they will be your ideal customers and serve them directly.

> What AI will allow these software engineers to do, is bypass their employers and serve customer niches directly, capturing more of the revenue themselves.

It's going to enable me to do less software development and more marketing? Goodie, I'm so happy I could puke.