> I had a friend in the 90s tell me the entire workforce in the US was shifting to management. I had a recruiter for programming jobs tell me at a job fair abo

> I had a friend in the 90s tell me the entire workforce in the US was shifting to management. I had a recruiter for programming jobs tell me at a job fair about 15 years ago that programming was essentially over in my country, in just a few years everything would be outsourced, and only software architect positions would be left. Turns out that people are bad at predicting the future. Similarly, the OP might have posted essentially the same question 20 years ago, minus the FAANG reference (Microsoft and IBM back then, maybe?). The answers are the same as back then: Nobody can predict the future, but so far we have failed to automate/compete ourselves out of well-paying jobs even though people have always claimed that that's only five years in the future.