> Consider a developer versed in CRUD apps obsoleted by a code generator AI and, they need to pivot to something different. e.g.: UI, simulation, games or syste

> Consider a developer versed in CRUD apps obsoleted by a code generator AI and, they need to pivot to something different. e.g.: UI, simulation, games or system. That pivot will require different languages, different mindset, different knowledge (simulation and games needs different sets of deep math, UI needs new tools and paradigms, system requires a different knowledge stack from hardware to lower levels of OS, etc.). This is nothing new, though. There used to be very lucrative job titles like "webmaster" or "web developer" whose daily work consisted of creating bespoke, static websites created with raw HTML and CSS. Whenever a customer wanted their website updated, even if just textual content updates, they got to bill a few hundred bucks to copy and paste the text into their site and upload the updated files onto whatever shared web hosting they were using. Tools were invented: first WYSIWYG editors like Microsoft Frontpage, then content management systems so users could update their own websites, then full-on SaaS website designers like Wix, and now the current state of, well maybe your business doesn't even really need a website because you can just make a Facebook page instead. When I was going to university in 2005, I was heavily warned by (cough) "experts" that due to this, plus the imminent wave of outsourcing of "IT" to low-cost developers in India and Bangladesh, that learning web-based software development was a dead-end career path, and US software developer salaries would cap out at $75k unless you got into management... yeah. So, yes, you'll need to pivot as you always have in the industry. Any potential threat from AI isn't anything new. And it's not nearly as impactful as switching from playing cello to piano.