What Do Coders Do After AI?

AI coding tools create asymmetric displacement: they eliminate the career-coder's entire role function (paradigm replacement, not task automation) while shifting identity-coders from writing code to specifying it. But the real unexamined move is the distribution bottleneck: code getting 10,000x cheaper means surplus flows to platform gatekeepers, not indie builders. The strongest unexplored thread is the reliability counter-trend — cheap generated slop creates demand for verification and quality tooling as the new scarce layer.