The way it works today is that different software engineers write the code that disemploys other software engineers. Also with machine learning access to open s

The way it works today is that different software engineers write the code that disemploys other software engineers. Also with machine learning access to open source code bases it would seem that machine systems could "apprentice" in the same way you posit the replacement of other skilled labor. The stronger argument for me is by analogy to chess software where centaurs (systems that combine human experts with chess tools outperform stand-alone software). Vinge offered this as a possible path in his original Singularity paper: intelligence augmentation (IA) may supplant AI or stand alone artificial intelligence for a wide range of the more complex tasks.