We have been told that computers will do our (software engineers) jobs for decades now. It has never come to fruition, and this is no different. What we are se

We have been told that computers will do our (software engineers) jobs for decades now. It has never come to fruition, and this is no different. What we are seeing is that the number of software engineers has increased dramatically and the average skill level has plummeted. It is not normal for a competent software engineer to need to reference Stack Overflow a dozen times per day every single day. The other thing that this is bringing to the forefront is just how atrocious the libraries are in certain ecosystems (e.g. JS/TS). If a tool that can write incorrect functions/methods makes you substantially more productive, you were never very valuable in the first place, and "AI" likely isn't the only thing threatening your job security.