> I have not yet taken up woodworking as a contingency plan for "Software Engineer" becoming an extinct profession Between "stable" and "extinct" are many stag

> I have not yet taken up woodworking as a contingency plan for "Software Engineer" becoming an extinct profession Between "stable" and "extinct" are many stages of software engineering labor market change, continually more difficult (for labor) as we move toward the latter state. Software engineering is likely to become a skill/tool attached to another harder to automate ability going forward rather than a vocation/craft on its own. To the extent that software engineers are employable, they will likely need some other x-factor adjacent to software skills, whether in the science, business, creative/artistic, or social domain. I've already seen this trend emerging in the startup world.