I don’t feel this existential dread yet. I do write less code yes, but many of the best libraries, products, etc were written by hand. Engineering is far from dead because you still need an understanding of how things come together to use AI effectively for the things you use it for. It’s just another tool. On the brightside, for those of us that have been too tired after work to write code in our spare time now have the time to do it. Write that game. Make that lib. Nothing is stopping that. We went from wire wraps to switches to punch cards to assembly and terminals and compilers and this abstraction or that. It’s just the next abstraction layer. Careerwise? The biggest issue is dumb people with too much authority that think they can replace all human talent. A real risk, but I bet that will never work. Weather the storm.