TFA's point is not that «coders» won't be needed any more, it's that they will hardly spend their time «coding», that is «devot[ing themselves] to tedium, to ca

TFA's point is not that «coders» won't be needed any more, it's that they will hardly spend their time «coding», that is «devot[ing themselves] to tedium, to careful thinking, and to the accumulation of obscure knowledge», «rob[bing them] of both the joy of working on puzzles and the satisfaction of being the one[s] who solved them».