You aren't totally safe as a programmer either. As software improves, each piece of software can take care of a wider number of people's needs. For example in

You aren't totally safe as a programmer either. As software improves, each piece of software can take care of a wider number of people's needs. For example in ~2001 setting up an ecommerce website probably involved hiring a web developer, setting up an email system for business probably meant hiring an IT consultant. Now shopify and google apps etc greatly reduce these sorts of needs. You also have ever expanding and improving open source solutions devouring categories of software.