what is your plan to pivot around the likely workforce collapse?

this has definitely been asked a million times over and i apologize.

ive been struggling to find meaning in a field in which we were all already building relatively meaningless business solutions. now that most of our work (development mostly, not cs research) can be automated, i'm really struggling to understand why those of us that aren't engineering prodigies would even bother

if LLMs can immediately generate high Q code at most layers of the system. what's the long term outlook for the average engineer? companies that once needed hundreds can be run by tens. LLMs have empowered the existing superpowers to further monopolize the market.

if you look at mining as an analogous scenario: we once needed many miners to extract whatever desired materials from the ground. heavy equipment replaced the need for huge teams of individuals and allowed us to upscale our mining operations greatly and decimate the workforce required. however, in that scenario, the more material extracted the better. we don't exactly need more software - theres a theoretical cap to how many business processes we can solve with software.

so my question is: where do we go from here? submit to QAing and fine tuning generated code? pivot to hardware? work on physical systems? open a coffee shop?