The Future Is Bright for Human Software Engineers

Despite many people thinking that Large Language Model (LLM) technology will reduce the need for software engineers, I remain optimistic about the future of human software engineers such as myself. One major reason for this is that LLM products such as Claude Code are likely being priced at levels far less than they actually cost. In my view, it is only a matter of time before the companies behind these products are forced to significantly raise prices or degrade quality. However, this is mostly speculation on my part, so I decided to focus on the following reasons why I believe creating software by programming computers directly is still the future.