Devs are being slowly replaced. Whoever thinks otherwise is just coping. AI now is just helping but it’ll become more and more robust to the point less and less devs will be needed and people will have to be laid off. With how things progress one-two seniors or experts per company will suffice, mostly to do audits of code produced by AI and do controlled deployments. Eventually even this will be automated. It’s just a matter of time.

Disclaimer: been coding commercially for past 26 years, running my own software development company for the past 13.