There are some parallels but the analogy falls apart. Even the most perfect car does only one thing very well: get people from point A to point B. That is, the

There are some parallels but the analogy falls apart. Even the most perfect car does only one thing very well: get people from point A to point B. That is, there is a finite amount of autorepairs and new car manufacturing that is done and will ever be done, and that ceiling is related to how many people own cars or want to own one at any given point in time. But the potential domains for software automation are unlimited. The demand for software programmers will keep increasing, continually, until all the work that people do in their lives is automated by software. The time to enjoy being a software developer might be finite, but I don't see the plateau happening any time soon.