As we replace more and more software creation use cases with tooling, it's possible that we at some time reach some turning point where software developers would be less sought for, but I don't see it any time soon.

ChatGTP and Copilot are not it. The unreliable output we have seen from ChatGTP and Copilot are not indicators that they are generic tools that can replace hand-crafted tools for specific programming scenarios. We can't leave them unsupervised any time soon. You'll need an expert to check their work, even if that expert might (or might not) be faster with the large language model assisting.

Relevant comic (I made a repost with image caption, will find):
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