It excites me. The only way it would really terrify me is if I were a very junior engineer right now or in college to be one.

I think we’ll see a ton of complaints about how bad the job market is in the next couple of years. That will be true, but only for juniors or for seniors who don’t embrace the tech. For seniors who do embrace it and specialize in implementing these systems, it’ll be a gold mine.

Then, over 5-10 years, our seniors will start to retire or leave the field. No one will be there to replace them. At that point we’ll see a resurgence in the job market.

Things like autocompletion and “chat with your codebase” help juniors more than seniors; agents help seniors much more than juniors. As these systems improve, their failure cases get more and more complex/nuanced - you will always need senior people with the insight necessary to figure out what’s wrong when it breaks. For a while that will help seniors and hurt juniors… right up until businesses realize that they don’t have replacements for their existing senior engineers, at which point they’ll be desperate to hire again.

You have massively misunderstood what I’m terrified by. In fact you’ve described something I find the least terrifying of anything I’ve ever read because it’s all pure fantasy.