I suppose what people are afraid of is that the devs who can do Hello World + pass Fizz Buzz might use AI to orchestrate sophisticated systems which actually ar

I suppose what people are afraid of is that the devs who can do Hello World + pass Fizz Buzz might use AI to orchestrate sophisticated systems which actually are effective in reducing a lot of menial work, which could eliminate a non-trivial number of jobs through sheer reduction of necessary labour/brain power. I agree though, off-shoring could have been the cheap labour which displaced a lot of devs, but I actually found a lot of work cleaning up off-shored applications and made great money doing it. It's perfectly possible that some horrible amalgamations of software will be puked out by AIs for a few years and ultimately create as much work as it displaced.