Comment by hathawsh

There is a large market for fine art. For everything else, there are printers and copiers. It's very difficult to maintain a career of painting and selling works for $100k. It's much easier to maintain a different career that happens to include printing things with little effort using an ordinary office printer.

That's where software development is going: of course you can still code by hand, but it will be increasingly difficult to get paid to do it. People will have a somewhat different career that happens to include coding things with little effort using an ordinary coding agent. Companies won't be able to afford to pay for expensive coders anymore (because otherwise their competition, who is getting along fine with a small software development budget, will take all their customers.)