When somebody tells you the work is finished because the machine writes the code, you have one question. Which half did it make cheaper, and what happened to the other one.
When the thing that produced the work is also the thing that checks the work, you do not have two opinions. You have one opinion twice, and it is in the voice of whoever was most convinced already.
When a check comes back clean, you know one thing only: the cases somebody wrote down passed. An aircraft was certified. A deployment had a process. An update was routine. None of that is the same as correct, and the distance between them is where this job lives.
And when somebody hands you a number about how important checking is, check the number. The most repeated one in this field turned out to be a handout from a training class in 1981.
So remember this one thing if you remember nothing else.
A good software developer used to write five hundred lines of code a day, by hand, and they understood every line of it. They knew what the problem was. They knew what the solution was. Today an agent writes fifty thousand lines in a day and nobody knows what it wrote. Nobody knows whether it duplicated something that already existed, whether it left an error in there, whether it quietly broke the thing that was working yesterday.
The risk of software failure is higher than it has ever been. And writing the code is not the issue. Validating it is.
That is why the software quality assurance engineer, the one who has the fundamentals and the AI skills and the automation skills together, is going to be wanted in this market. There is more code than there has ever been, more features than there have ever been, more software than there has ever been, and every line of it still has to be true before it reaches somebody's money.
The man in the chat had the shape of it right. Something is ending, and he had the wrong half.
Everybody can build now. What nobody can do cheaply is look at what came out and say, with something behind it, that this is right. That is the job. It is open, and it is yours if you go and learn it.