I think this is the wrong way to look at it. Forget replacement, if AI just makes developers more productive, companies don't need to hire as many people to do

I think this is the wrong way to look at it. Forget replacement, if AI just makes developers more productive, companies don't need to hire as many people to do the same work. Maybe the pool of work for developers will increase proportionally to the productivity increase, so there's no layoffs, but there's no guarantee of that.