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That is what architects and business analysts do, so at least those jobs are safe for the foresable future.

The offshoring raw coding jobs, those will be outsourced to machines instead.

I really relate to aspects of both of these comments above. 1. There is a last 1% problem, heck it's probably more like 10% problem with LLM generated code similar to the last mile problem with driverless cars. 2. The bigger thing that will impact the job market is, everyone, at global scale, is being told to learn to code. Every middle schooler in the US is seemingly assumed a failure by their school if they don't "learn to code". There will be so much exponential growth in junior devs over the coming years. Looking outside the US, software engineer salaries aren't that great. Can the US economy create an exponential number of high paying engineer jobs to offset the global exponential rise in qualified engineers trying to get those jobs? Companies will offshore via third parties like Accenture who will skim off the top the livable wage away from those people outside the US who Accenture offshores to, so even those people outside the US won't be winning. Any way you look at it, I believe there will be massive world wide pressure on US engineer jobs.

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