One way to look at it is if programming is largely automated, then this implies that any thing that is reducible to programming(as in could be modelled on a com

One way to look at it is if programming is largely automated, then this implies that any thing that is reducible to programming(as in could be modelled on a computer) is as well. This includes all engineering fields that I know of. So if you want to stay in engineering there are not many options.