> will significantly reduce the demand for coders?<p>Define "coders".<p>A slightly cynical view: yes, it will reduce the demand for "writers of code in a single language and framework, following the docs and without much other understanding". No, it will not reduce the demand for proper software engineers, who understand the inside-out of the systems they work with, from hardware to kernel to libs and whatever stack they're using, and who will become more productive and will likely be able to deliver more from their huge backlogs.<p>Explanation: my impression (totally an opinion, but I've heard some people roughly agreeing with me) is that in the last 10-12 years a whole lot of people entered the software development profession attracted by salary, hype, easy money (crypto?), or whatever else, maybe through a dev bootcamp or just by learning on the internet. That's not a problem per se, some of the most skilled devs I know are self taught. But there're a number of developers that, even after a lot of years, have only a limited understanding of how their systems work.<p>Python programmers that know Django but have no idea what a syscall is, or how a process works in their operating system of choice, or how the Django ORM translates those classes into some SQL. They live in the IDE, somebody else is taking care of the deployment after they push, they just make changes and addition to an existing app. That's it.<p>Frontend programmers that know some toolkit like React or Angular with a few libraries, that can write some piece of Typescript, but that often have no idea about some Javascript basics, the browser, http. Again, they contribute to an existing project, adding files, changing things, but somebody else is in charge of deployment, and they won't be able to setup a new project from scratch, if needed.<p>A lot of those people still had/have good salaries, maybe not the best, but the market was tilted in their favour; if top tier talent flew towards big tech, there were positions to be filled in other sectors. But I think that even big tech wasn't immune to the coding bootcamp effect.<p>It seems to me that when money was cheap and the work to be done was a lot, it made total sense to add whatever kind of help could be found on the market. Now, this could change; if software engineers can move quicker with the help of AIs, follow-the-docs-only programmers may be become far less useful.<p>Just my 2c.