> 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.

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

If you hate marketing, don't do it. If you enjoy software development, have fun doing it.

However, you will remain an employee and you have to appreciate the pros and cons of being an employee. The other thing you have to appreciate is that the number of employees writing code who are AI, are cheaper than any human on the planet and works 24x7 without complaining or asking for a raise is going to go up. Likely exponentially.

This doesn't mean demand for good software developers is going to go down, but increasingly, software development is likely going to look like how one human Amazon warehouse worker wears special harnesses that allow them to lift far more weight, walk longer distances and interact with dozens of robots in the warehouse.

As I said in the parent it's not for everyone but a lot more people who were struggling to start their own venture will now be more capable of and have more freedom.

It might very well turn out that in a few years, the only way to enjoy software development the way you like it, is to establish your own boutique software development company.