There certainly will be more developers because coding will be more accessible to people without software backgrounds. So that's a net positive for the world.

There certainly will be more developers because coding will be more accessible to people without software backgrounds. So that's a net positive for the world. Also, I think that software engineers in general will get more productive because there will be almost no reason to spend hours pouring over docs anymore. That's a big productivity enhancement. Also, if want to work in a framework or language that you're not an expert in? That's easy peasy now. AI will be a boon to companies that have legacy systems that they were previously struggling to find engineers to work on. I think the big issue for software is going to be that engineers are no longer the bottleneck and the focus is going to shift from _how_ we build things to _what_ we're building and even more importantly _why_. Engineers should be rejoicing over that because it means that software development is going to be a lot more focused on building and creativity than the mechanical details of how do you get framework X to work with data Y.