LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
(human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)
A human engineer will get those passively at no cost to the company.
Some human engineers. I still regularly have to explain Git to people that never bothered to learn.
Also I think you are forgetting that AI is still improving and getting cheaper. Not super quickly, but even if it is too expensive now, is that still going to be true in 10 years? I doubt it.