I think you hit the crux of the issue . While coding jobs will still be around they will probably employ top 1% of the people in the intelligence spectrum whereas before it would have employed say 30% of this group of people (made up numbers). Yet those people still need a decent annual income to survive in USA and they don’t have alternative skillsets or assets. So yes you may be right in that we are in the early phase of the bell curve with things progressively going to look darker for more and more people.
> they will probably employ top 1% of the people in the intelligence spectrum
Nothing says that the top 1% of the most intelligent people (whatever that means) will want to work in that area.
Because: they may not want to (one could even wonder if they do today), they may not be incentivised to, they may find an even more powerful pursuit elsewhere.
Then, a lot of the skillset is transferable to other professions. The thing is that those professions too may be under pressure of some reorganisation.
Recruiters and hiring companies will also have to adjust how they read the market: multidisciplinary candidates, fragmented career paths are becoming more and more common, and it's generally a sign of adaptive people.
