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I am not personally seeing any development jobs being taken away by AI. But when you start to think of a new idea for a product you do have to seriously consider what the best approach would be now. Whether you go for the algorithmic approach and develop it based on the well defined knowledge, research and logic, or if you instead should see if there is a large data set that you could instead create a model, using machine learning, that would be able to produce a "good enough" result instead. Most recently I have been thinking about painting software for creating new materials and textures etc... and it almost makes no sense now to do it the "old" way and instead create a model based on real world photos and have it generate the texture you want. The creative feeling of painting is what I enjoy, but if you are after an end result for a production then getting to the end result as fast as you can is more desirable. And this will eventually apply to many cases in 3D, as shown by the work Nvidia are doing right now. I should probably start focusing on tools and workflows to integrate GANS into C4D. This site here is absolutely nuts. https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ Just keep refreshing the page for new generated faces.

I saw this interesting desktop toy that is both a square and circle when you spin it. The splines are segments from a parabola y = x ^ 2

Finally - just this week - I got some space and time and did it... I've spent a week learning, testing and developing - and have now completely revised my workflow to an ACES based one - from rendering through compositing. It's not been easy, but I think it will be worth it. I've just completed the first job on the new workflow and it's gone well. Unfortunately it's under strict NDA, so I can't share the images. Hopefully I might have some I can share in the future. If you want to get better output and much more post-render compositing flexibility I'd certainly give it some serious thought.