Right. It's not that software engineers are going to go away, just that more and more cookie-cutter software will be buildable by less-technical people (eg. lik

Right. It's not that software engineers are going to go away, just that more and more cookie-cutter software will be buildable by less-technical people (eg. like what Wordpress has done for basic websites and what Unity has done for game development). Advances in NLP and A.I. will probably make code more English-like (eg. like SQL), or at the very least abstract away all the syntax quirks and other tedious low-level bullshit. Most software engineers are constantly reinventing the wheel (even if they don't realize it because that wheel hasn't been open-sourced yet), and that is the work that will be automated away. But of course the cutting edge will always require programmers (like someone above me commented). But don't be surprised if programming looks a lot different in the future than it looks today. I think software engineers tend to glorify the act of typing lines of code into a text editor. Code is simply a means to an end. http://www.jbernier.com/the-future-of-development-less-code http://www.jbernier.com/the-future-of-development-less-code