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> ... and IMHO most of them are in denial of the fact that their skills have mostly become worthless if they don't start to pivot to something valueable.

But your comment says it several time: the valuable skill is being already a seasoned dev.

Then AI is superpower.

It's for the junior that things sucks big times.

I see it all around me: senior devs are empowered while juniors are not even hired anymore.

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It is a shock going through the industry, and we are just starting. I think future software engineers will need more training years and more unpaid time getting skilled. More like surgeons, who need almost 10 years of training until we actually let them operate on live patients.

Given that we are seeing a big retirement wave of the boomers, a lot of seasoned devs will retire in the next 10 years. So there should be enough demand, and a big enough paycheck for that decade long training to make its moneys worth.

assuming the productivity boost of AI to a senior developer is 10x, we might still have way more engineers than actually required for the next few decades. Also, seniors do not have to be boomers, and have a good thirty years ahead before retirement.

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