Comment by cadamsdotcom

There’s another reason developers will never be replaced.

Expectations always go up. People expect more. Whoever can give it to them will reap the rewards. And that is whoever works out how to do better than the baseline of capability available to all, eg. AI code tools or no-code. Human expertise adds value above a baseline of capability that’s universally available, even if that baseline is rising all the time.

You need better experts than the next mob to even have a chance. And with near-zero distribution costs even marginally better software will trend toward winner take all.