No human devs will be required (or useful except in extreme niches) within a few years. Ten, at the wild maximum, I suspect.

I get exhausted because of the cognitive overhead of switching between 2 or 3 projects at once. I always want to be manually verifying or prompt writing, and keeping it all straight is taxing. But I’m getting so much more done.

I would start looking for a job at an AI-leaning firm.

I work at a company that maintains one of the largest Rails codebases in the world (their claim, but believable). My experience has been the opposite - Claude and Cursor have done a wonderful job of helping me understand the implement new features in this gigantic codebase. I actually found out through AI that while I enjoy writing code, I enjoy building great software better, the coding was just a means to the end.

I am having a blast at work. I've been leaning hard into AI (as directed by leadership) while others are falling far far behind. I am building new production features, often solo or with one or two other engineers, at lightning speed, and being recognized across the org for it. This is an incredible opportunity for many engineers that won't last. I'm trying to make the most of it. It will be sad when software is no longer a useful pastimes for humans. I'm thinking another three years and most of us will be unemployed or our jobs will have been completely transformed into something unrecognizable a few short years ago.