30% of Developers Think AI Will Replace Them

A web developer with five years of experience posted one line on Reddit after trying the latest Claude Max: "I feel increasingly irrelevant." The thread exploded. Thousands of comments. Heated arguments about whether the profession is dying or just changing shape. Someone mentioned that a task estimated at five days was completed by Claude in a single attempt. That one anecdote became a lightning rod for every anxiety developers have been quietly holding. I've been building products with AI tool