I used Claude this past month to write a couple trading bots for Hive Engine. Something completely out of my reach before. It was an interesting, interactive experience; at times I felt like I was talking to a customer service agent. The potential of AI is enormous; there's a lot of human creativity locked up in ignorance, you could say. People with ideas that don't have the technical skills to implement them ... and now they do, if they know how to converse with AI.
RE: AI didn't replace me but it replaced my need for developers.