That's the 90's calling back with the 4th gen language that were supposed to drive the developer out of work. Before that it was COBOL, a simple enough language

That's the 90's calling back with the 4th gen language that were supposed to drive the developer out of work. Before that it was COBOL, a simple enough language that does not require programmer. Automation happens a lot in the Software Development world, but instead of depriving the developer of work, they just pile on the shoulder of the developer. For example, today, with AWS/Docker/TDD/DDD/... I basically do the work that would have taken a team of 5 people only 15 years ago. The thing is there is always going to be somebody that sits at the limit between the fuzzy world of requirements and the rigorous technical world of implementation and those people are going to be developer (of course they will not be programming in java, rather in something else, but rigorous enough that the activity is still called programming) Unless AI takes over, but it probably means that work as we know it has changed completely.