I don't know about this. All the "scary things that are going to happen to programmers" happened 20 years ago, and we're still here. Remember all those CASE t

I don't know about this. All the "scary things that are going to happen to programmers" happened 20 years ago, and we're still here. Remember all those CASE tools that replaced the need to write programs? You just describe the problem and out comes the software. Business People can do it. (But you still need to describe the problem in the exact level of detail as the program your tool outputs, and now you have to do it using that funky tool). Remember when all our jobs got offshored to India to be done for $10/hour? They seem to have come back, along with all the $10/hour guys over there who could actually do the work (and who are all now getting paid market wages over here). Over the years, that happened to all the "offshore" there is, and today you really don't want to have your product built by the remaining offshore guys who can't command more than $50/hour. Costs of running a software business did in fact go down from $1M/year in server and licensing to $5/month for a Digital Ocean slice, but the actual work of writing software still requires programming computers. And that is still hard, and hard to find people who can do. So we're still here. My money is on us still being here ten years from now.