A simple allegory to this: Cloud Computing. Cloud computing boomed, and is by some measure continuing to do so, the last ~15 years, from AWS to Firebase to VPS

A simple allegory to this: Cloud Computing. Cloud computing boomed, and is by some measure continuing to do so, the last ~15 years, from AWS to Firebase to VPS providers like Linode. The promise, in part, was that it would replace the need for certain roles, namely system administrators and - depending on what technologies you adopted - you could replace good chunks of backend engineers. Yet, what happened was roles shifted. System Administration became DevOps, and backend engineers learned to leverage the tools to move faster but provide value elsewhere - namely in designing systems that are stable and well interconnected between different systems, and developing efficient schema representations of data models, among other things. The reality today, is I can buy an entire backend, I can even buy a backend that will automatically stand up API endpoints in GraphQL or REST, (or both!). Even though this is true, the demand for backend engineers hasn't shrunken dramatically (if anything, it seemingly increased). Technologies enable things in unforseen ways all the time, and whether LLMs will displace alot of tech workers will be up for debate, and the reality is - for some at least - it will, but overall, if we take the closest situations possible from the past, it will overall increase the demand for software engineers over time, as LLMs paired with humans have thus far shown that it works best that way and I foresee that continuing to the case, much like accountants + excel is better than accountants - excel.