> My prediction is that junior to mid level software engineering will disappear mostly, while senior engineers will transition to be more of a guiding hand to LLMs output, until eventually LLMs will become so good, that senior people won't be needed any more.

It is more like across the board beyond engineers, including both junior and senior roles. We have heard first hand from Sam Altman that in the future that Agents will be more advanced and will work like a "senior colleague" (for cheap).

Devin is already going after everyone. Juniors were already replaced with GPT-4o and mid-seniors are already worried that they are next. To executives and management, they see you as a "cost".

So frankly, I'm afraid that the belief that software engineers of any level are safe in the intelligence age is 100% cope. In 2025, I predict that there will be more layoffs because of this.

Then (mid-senior or higher) engineers here will go back to these comments a year later and ask themselves:

"How did we not see this coming?"