If all of your strengths revolve around your ability to write code - yes, I agree that programmers will be replaced by AI eventually. However, if your job is to

If all of your strengths revolve around your ability to write code - yes, I agree that programmers will be replaced by AI eventually. However, if your job is to engineer - I do not think it will be so easy. Even an AI-driven system will need to be designed and maintained. To me, honestly, in my XOps/SRE/Systems Engineering background, I am not really concerned about myself - in fact I am excited. Code is often an obstacle to getting done what I want to do, the act of it does not bring me any satisfaction or joy. I am not superb at it, but not bad, but if that task could be offloaded to another system and I could actually design and build faster, that to me is way more exciting than tediously editing thousands of lines of boilerplate IAC. This doesn't even get into the complexity of designing and maintaining massively distributed systems that require scale. In short, yes, I agree that pure programmers will go away, but people who focus on being engineers will not.