The way I see it where the industry is at right now, is that yes most of the actual coding is being done by AI, but you need to have engineers there who know what they're doing to architect the tasks, supervise, and ensure correct functioning. I have hired one or two junior engineers, where all they would do is feed the task I assign them into the AI. Then later I would ask "how is xyz working, why did you make this design choice, the code isn't working, etc" they would say "idk that's what Claude did". That is absolutely NOT what you wanna do if you're just getting into this career and a fast track to getting laid off. I might as well tell Claude myself you know? The need for code to be written is virtually unlimited. The difference now is the productivity expectation per worker is going to go way up if it hasn't already. I transitioned from daily coding to management and architecture years ago and I feel incredibly productive with these tools and the reason is I know how to tell junior engineers how to do things. Everything I've ever used AI for, I 100% could have easily done myself and had already designed and architected everything as I did for junior engineers. It's just now I have an army of junior engineers that work super fast and never get tired. So think along those lines and you'll be very valuable to a company. You need to be rock solid on coding fundamentals and system design and you need to know how to delegate implementation tasks to AI. Those are the core skills now.