Let’s assume that in 10 years, AI has advanced absurdly, insanely fast, and is now capable of doing everything a Senior SWE can do. It can program in 15 different languages, 95% accuracy with almost no mistakes, can create entire applications in minutes, and no more engineers or SWEs are needed… What will all the devs do? Do they just become homeless? Transition to medical field, nursing? Become tradespeople like plumbers, HVAC?
Who tells the AI what to create? And how well does the AI understand the exact thing the person is attempting to do?
It would be no different than prompt engineers now knowing exactly what the say/type in order to get the image output they want.
That prompt work would be a kind of programming code in upon itself.