> No: people that care to understand the whole stack, and be able to provide that value, will still exist and shine.

I hope so. But I don't believe so. I think us SWE's will find a way to disrupt that too as we all rush for the exits before this industry sinks.

The biggest barrier previously to anything (not just SWE) was the fact that like everything worth it in life; it takes work to see results. Generally people are time/resource poor and have to spend their own time or outsource the effort to get something - which limits the things they can do.

AI takes that away for SWE relative to other fields. People can get instant gratification now and "do it themselves" and given cost/benefit will prefer other fields now and want to spend their time elsewhere. At scale there will still be jobs for things people don't want to manage themselves but they will be more routine and busy work - not high salary skills based.