AI solving coding won’t necessarily remove the need for coders for four main reasons.

Even if AI can solve coding on larger legacy codebases.

1. This just means that the “bar” to sell something at a premium goes much higher. The market will always pay a premium for better stuff, just like people pay 5x, 20x more for better hotels over say motels.

2. There is still a huge mountain of legacy code that developers will protect for job securities for at least 3 to 5 years.

3. The “hard” part about coding will just shift to somewhere else.

4. Understanding where the leverage is, where the alpha is, etc still requires the domain expertise of developers in many cases.

That said, the entire profession may shrink 50% just like many artists moved elsewhere after photoshop became good.