alt Hacker NewsI believe that the middle ground for this is to keep all these jobs orchestrating agents or whatever the AI future invents for us, but with lower wages. The golden era of dev wages will be gone. There is no incentive for companies paying people 100-500k-1m to write prompts and debug agents, independent of their level.
This might be how it shakes out but I don't think it's acceptable, and I don't think white collar workers will think it's acceptable. Taking high income people and making them low income people (usually for life) has a tendency to politically radicalise people. Especially in light of the unprecedented productivity and profits which businesses will experience. People will demand a slice of the pie.