Wall Street Journal: Prompt Engineering is already "obsolete" as job (link in body). This is an important indicator how fast the market is changing and why you need to be extremely skeptical of "Gen AI" and bootcamps pivoting from SWE to AI.

There are two unrelated threads around AI: 1. AI as a tool - this is what you are talking about. Like Vim -> VSCODE. VSCODE -> Cursor, etc... Just like people using WYSIWYG coding IDEs in C# who can't write for loops, same problems with AI tools. 2. AI as a new coding paradigm. What if AI Agents write and maintain their own services and we don't really know or care how it's written. Right now we need AI to write code humans understand so we can integrate it and evaluate it. What if instead there is an AI system that takes a spec and builds a standalone system that fulfills the promised API and maintains it as the spec changes. This kind of architecture is not compatible with anything we have now and is a new paradigm it what it means to code. \#1 started happening a year ago. \#2 will happen over 3 to 5 years. \#1 will keep SWEs employed \#2 will kill off junior SWE roles and they will evolve into something new we haven't seen yet.