The profession went from writing machine code by hand to auditing "auto-generated" machine code from assembly. It led to more jobs, not less. And so on with eve

The profession went from writing machine code by hand to auditing "auto-generated" machine code from assembly. It led to more jobs, not less. And so on with every generation of programming languages. With every new higher-level language with new abstractions, we're often just adding another chain to the inputs to a machine code translator. If you showed a programmer from the 1950s python syntax and told them that all you have to do is write these words to build a program, they'd think it was artificial intelligence.