> I mean it's weird that we all imagine reasons why we're still relevant when we have set fire to the thing that made us indispensable. Very few things in this

> I mean it's weird that we all imagine reasons why we're still relevant when we have set fire to the thing that made us indispensable. Very few things in this world are all-or-nothing, and not every purchasing decision is based on price alone. Do you always buy the cheapest meal? Car? When you renovate your house, do you always choose the cheapest contractor? Tons of developers will lose their jobs, and many more will find it hard to maintain the salaries/rates the industry has been accustomed to. This is already happening. The days where an average graduate from a run-of-the-mill CompSci program or even a coding bootcamp could sleepwalk into a $150,000+/year entry-level job are largely gone. The days where you have job security simply because you're a competent developer with 10 years of experience are in the process of going away. This does not mean that there is no subset of developers who cannot be successful in this market. There are people who are doing just fine because they know how to articulate their value and sell themselves to employers or clients.