During the just-post-pandemic hiring spree I remember talking to some software developers who were doing very light coding in what I would usually think was a business analyst role. Those roles were both bloat that was lost once free money stopped flowing, and easily replaced (or reduced) with AI.

And as software developers, it would be silly if we didn't think that businesses would love to find a way to replace us, as the software we have created did for other roles for the past 60 years.