I think that by the time AI can genuinely replace software engineers, a lot else in society will change. It's hard to predict what it will look like. I could w

I think that by the time AI can genuinely replace software engineers, a lot else in society will change. It's hard to predict what it will look like. I could write both utopian and dystopian narratives and I can pretty much guarantee they'll both be wrong. Not "in the middle" but something unexpected, the way nobody predicted cat videos or doomscrolling. But you are almost certainly right that we will not be the inheritors.