On the hour long round trip driving my eldest to high school, I was trying to explain why a career as a software developer might not be as stable as it used to be. While I was turning that into a coherent story, a bunch of small learnings from the past year coalesced into one point.
AI is replacing the act of writing code. I use it the way I use an electric driver to turn a screw: because it's more efficient. What today's tools still don't do reliably is answer two questions: Does this solve the actual problem? and Is this the right code for the job?
We still need people who can read and review code, because someone has to judge the output. That may change in the medium or long term, but today AI-assisted development still needs a human with enough understanding to spot wrong solutions and wrong designs. The tools have compressed weeks or months of implementation into hours or days; they haven't removed the need for that oversight.
So, fellow and aspiring developers, please keep building. Keep learning.