Comment by coolThingsFirst

This is so naive, you watch chess masters not because of the quality of the end result of the chess game but because it illustrates human ability, it's entertainment.

SWE the quality is measured in the end result, there's no beauty in handcrafted barely working code. So if machines come to the stage where they program better than 90% of human developers then yes the craft is done for. The profession is dead.

You can talk to LLM to give it specs for what you want built but that's basically a totally different profession that a high-schooler would do and salaries will soon follow suit.