Coders had decades to unionise and setup legal barriers to protect their livelihood.

(Doctors won’t ever be out of a job because of AI because they’ll always get a fat paycheck even just to look at the output spat out by the machine.)

They didn’t out of misplaced hubris and elitism ("just be the best 10x engineer ever and you’ll be safe").

Now they have less than 10 years before their wages start crashing hard.