I agree with the sentiment but there is a difference between a programmer and software engineer. Programmers who just move pixels around a page and hook up a ne

I agree with the sentiment but there is a difference between a programmer and software engineer. Programmers who just move pixels around a page and hook up a news feed? Sure those will be gone, automated away not blue collar (imo). Building the systems to make the tools to automate that away? Those will still be white collar jobs. Pushing bits is easy, converting an abstract vision into a scalable, maintainable system is hard.