When AI is cheap, why use juniors, regular software engineers or off-shore labor at all? AI replaces these things. Why not use the best available talent to oversee and guarantee the work of coding agents? To define requirements and translate them into maintainable code? This is the trend. It takes mastery to produce good, maintainable code from vague requirements using coding agents. This seems like value add a human will continue to provide.

I also see the blending of engineers and data scientists with product managers.