AI doesn’t mean there won’t be coders, but there will be the need for a lot fewer of them.
The job will change from writing code to correcting the code that is written.
And competent software developers already must be much smarter people than the average for the population. The "average guy" (or girl) simply cannot do this kind of work, no matter how they are trained.
Note that I do not assert that smarter people are wiser people or have any better morals than average people. They aren't and they don't.
If AI is even capable of real software development, the common use of such tools will aggravate the discrepancy between the number of smart people required and the number that exist in a population.
As AI becomes more intelligent and capable, the very idea of software will change. AI is able to code new games on the fly as you tell it what you want. It will soon (2 years max)do that for any kind software you need or can imagine. No future for software engineers, but no future for software companies, either. No future with AI for almost any jobs. Only few jobs are more or less AI proof. One “safe” category is elected politicians and another is traditional church minister. AI will otherwise take our jobs in just a few years, hard as it is to accept.
RVERY job that was able to be accomplished remotely during covid can be done by AI.
EVERY job.
They’re getting ready to replace as many as they can.
Coders? The prompting to develop applications will be more like writing out exact specifications - good old software engineering stuff. It will just happen faster and with more iterations.