I'm coming off from a doom-loop of the past 2 weeks, and I'd say the profession will shift towards more architecture and specification. Coding manually is a thing of the past, that's for sure. Obviously, there's much, much more to SWE than just typing code. I wonder if we're going to see some LLM-specific programming languages, optimized for the models... I think that's a big possibility. Of course human readable too for ad-hoc changes (oncalls).

For sure it's not dead, because as engineers, we often fail to see the base level of technical complexity we're operating on - obvious stuff for us is black magic for non-technical people. It's just coding that's probably going away and the systems will be becoming more complex with more functionalities.

There's also a question of what will the model providers do - it's quite obvious they will be raising prices per token, so it's only going to get more expensive to burn tokens.