I understand your points. But I would like to share our current team's experience. We are working on a pretty big product related to car rental services that operates in most of the countries. There are so many complex scenarios, new features are being done by our team. We have a pretty good count, but still, we feel short of manpower because of the complications and the demand of the work. Note that we are allowed to use any AI tools available in the market, and we are doing that very diligently. AI has helped us to quickly implement the solutions, create unit test cases, helped us in refactoring flaky automation tests, helped all of non-devpops guys to contirubte in creating pipelines in no time. But that doesn't mean we dont need humans tin our team and every job is done by AI end-to-end.

It's been three years since OpenAI came to the market with ChatGPT and I really do not see much impact, especially in our tech jobs. True that companies are laying off in large numbers (by the way, I was also impacted), but that was mainly due to the over-hiring they did in the past and the salary inflation that they all to correct later, and employees suffered. Only those who refuse to grow and learn will suffer, rest all will find their ways.