My father was a machinist, and I saw in high school that there was no future in that in the US and went into software, which at the time was a hot field. But it

My father was a machinist, and I saw in high school that there was no future in that in the US and went into software, which at the time was a hot field. But it was clear to me once the Internet made outsourcing these kinds of tasks trivial that coding would become commoditized. (I actually also thought that basic software construction would be largely automated by now lol.) It occurred to me a while ago that "programming" in the traditional sense is more or less the "blue-collar job" of the 21st century. And these jobs will follow the route of the blue-collar jobs of the 20th century in the US.