Worried, but in a measured way. Craftsmanship is still important and will remain important. Being able to work with systems as they exist is also incredibly im

Worried, but in a measured way. Craftsmanship is still important and will remain important. Being able to work with systems as they exist is also incredibly important. There will be a lot of apps created and they will need to be maintained, or made to scale, and that will require more programmers as the solutions start to strain - AI code may end up the new "legacy PHP" code. My prediction (worth almost nothing): A lot of folks will lose their jobs, and average pay will go down, sometimes by a very high amount for developers that aren't at staff level - the "able to buy a house where there are jobs" rung on the economic ladder will keep rising and income inequality will keep increasing until something major is done about it. Business owners will be able to do more with less, and the job of programming will get more difficult as more productivity will be expected. What I'm doing about it: Let the future come and react to what happens, not what I think will happen. Keep living my life and find things that are important to me outside of work. Remind myself our time is always limited, and make the most of relationships I have and seek contentment rather than happiness.