You're splitting hairs over a title, but effectively talking about the same individuals. Whatever juice there is to squeeze out of generative AI coding, the pe

You're splitting hairs over a title, but effectively talking about the same individuals. Whatever juice there is to squeeze out of generative AI coding, the people who will squeeze the most from it in the near future (10-20 years) are current and incoming software developers. Some may adopt different titles as the role matures, especially if there's a pay differential. This already happened with data engineering, database administration, etc So it's possible that the absolute number of people carrying the title approximately like "software developer" may be fewer in 10 years than it is today, although I personally find that very unlikely. But the people leading and maturing whatever alternate path comes up, for the next generation or so, will more often than not have a professional or academic background in software development regardless. The whole point of the article is that generative AI represents a lever that amplifies the capabilities of people who best know how to apply it. And for software development, that's ultimately going to be software developers.