Any time you're dismissing the ideas of people with more experience than you, consider who is actually likely to know more about the topic. Here's the thing: having ChatGPT explain things to you doesn't help you learn the hard parts of being a developer any more than watching a YouTube video on the topic does. The reason people pay the big bucks for programming is all the experience of solving really hard problems and drawing connections between the concepts we learned from blog posts, YouTube videos, and explanations from ChatGPT. And if ChatGPT automates away all the entry-level positions, people who even have that experience, have watched hundreds of videos and read thousands of blog posts, will be scarcer and scarcer and will command really high rates. And we'll be able to because companies won't be paying juniors anymore. But at some point there won't be anyone left to generate new material to feed into LLMs, because the talent pipeline has dried up.

Also, whenever I've automated anything, it just means I can take on more interesting or important tasks faster. Every backlog in the world has more work than the team can do in it.