It already has eaten the lower ends of programming on the web side with centralized services and templated web development. You can keep defining software engi

It already has eaten the lower ends of programming on the web side with centralized services and templated web development. You can keep defining software engineers as those who haven't been automated away yet -- but I'd wager many already have. For example most companies are not spinning up their own hardware anymore, and less and less of their own software.