Sadly the future may already be visible in events like the recent Block layoffs, where AI-driven productivity was cited as a reason for reducing engineering staff.
A useful historical parallel is the semiconductor industry in the 1950s. Electronics production moved from manual assembly of circuit boards to fabricated integrated circuits. When that transition occurred, large numbers of assembly workers disappeared and production became highly automated.
The work did not vanish entirely, but it shifted from building products to designing and controlling the production process.
If AI software generation follows a similar path, large development teams may give way to smaller groups overseeing automated production systems. Those teams might include:
The focus moves away from writing individual artifacts toward controlling the systems that generate them.