The junior engineer role isn’t going away. It’s just evolving. It’ll likely shift toward things like code analysis, reviewing work, and managing projects with AI tools. It’s similar to when we moved from hand-coded HTML to visual UI builders: the html code might not look perfect(it's actually crappy) , but it gets the job done. Over time, we’ll get better code management tools that will make code easier for everyone to understand. It sucks for the glut of coders that will need to adapt. But that's not new. How many web sites are written in perl, now? Did perl developers disappear? Some, but most moved on to other languages. That’s just how things progress.

Soon we'll have more programming projects popping up. It will now be financially profitable to create smaller projects that were losers before which will create new jobs. Or much more bigger project that could never be built before. So, AI won't take all coding jobs, they will evolve.