This is a question you asked me over phone/voice, and I think I answered. But the fact the you wrote this post with humility speaks a lot. I think you still have ways to go, but this is a good place to start.
I am not a coder myself, but I work with many and being from India and being from an exclusive University in India, which has produced some of the best coders in the world that we know, I have a good understanding about the industry. My nephew works for google deepmind. I have a close friend at NVDA, from the early days, also several at AWS from its inception, and from early days at MSFT. So when you did a lot of mumbo-jumbo in the past, I was disapproving.
The point is not that coding is getting obsolete. That is merely a fact. Now I can code fairly well in python using web version of Jupyter notebook and any of the basic LLMs, but that is NOT the point.
The point is, what is the next step? This is a loaded question.
There are two broad segments towards the solution:
- Next step for you as a person
- Next step for coding as a profession or science
Let us not get into the second, as that will take 2 hours to write and we won't get anywhere.
But, the first point is solvable and easy. As a person, one should explore a profession that they like, but there are times when the likable profession is not enough to produce an employment. Imagine a job of a typewriter maintenance worker (I mentioned that because one of my uncle was one!), no matter how much he/she liked the job, it doesn't exist today. So the person (my uncle) started selling life insurance. Did he like it? No. But if provided the employment. And then after a while he started doing real estate, buying and remodeling home, which he liked a lot. He retired comfortably. Hope you get the moral of the story.