"Without guidance, LLMs tend to paint themselves into a corner, because they’re generating code to solve individual prompts, not thinking holistically about an application’s architecture." user error, mostly.

But the general argument of 'we will need skilled operators' still holds.

For every 'junior' displaced by AI, there will be some other kind of relevant role they're needed for.

Agentic workflows, integration, all the data science stuff, new UX paradigms.

I don't think the job numbers will dwindle, just shift.