Building a SaaS with Claude agents convinced me the "AI will take our jobs" panic confuses prototypes with production

A flashy prototype is not the same as running a real system in production and that's where most of the "AI is going to take our jobs" talk falls apart for me. Lately I keep seeing the idea that, since anyone can spin up a "product" now, engineers are becoming redundant. I think it's naive, it confuses the happy path with the real system. AI generates that happy path at an incredible speed. But systems don't fail on the happy path; they fail at the edges. What happens when the database goes down? When concur