No. This has been going on since before COBOL. No code/low code is always just around the corner. Now we have the additional fantasy of AI writing code for us.

No. This has been going on since before COBOL. No code/low code is always just around the corner. Now we have the additional fantasy of AI writing code for us. The more routine and mechanical parts of developing software will get automated away and packaged up as managed service; that's been happening for a long time too. If businesses could meet their software needs with some off-the-shelf packages plugged together that would have happened a long time ago. In some domains and applications it has happened -- no one writes custom database managers anymore, but that was part of the job when I started (pre-RDBMS). Business software generates new requirements and needs, often faster than the business can find people to work on them. Some people may get put of a job by new software tools, that happens when people over-specialize and fail to adapt. I've been programming for 40+ years and have heard about how my job is going away real soon now since I started. I'm not worried.