Comment by pjmlp

The pressure to do more AI based work is certainly there.

Also from my experiences with agents, and given that I have been around computers since 1986, I can clearly see where the road is going.

Anyone involved with software engineering tasks, should see themselves becoming more of a technical architect for their coding agents, than raw coding, just like nowadays while Assembly is a required skill for some fields, others can code without ever learning anything about it.

Models will eventually become more relevant than specific programming languages, what is worth discussing X or Y is better, if I can generate any that I feel like asking for. If anything newer languages will have even harder time getting adopted, on top of everything that is expected, now they also have to be relevant for AI based workflows.