This has been happening since the sixties. As soon as you automate the current IT roles and responsibilities, a new layer of possibilities, heretofore impracti

This has been happening since the sixties. As soon as you automate the current IT roles and responsibilities, a new layer of possibilities, heretofore impractical, becomes available. Like an onion, each successive layer covers a larger surface area of activity, which actually INCREASES the amount of IT work available - plus there will still be jobs maintaining the "automatic" systems in the layers down below. My only fear is that maybe one day people will be satisfied with the systems they have and declare "Enough!", halting any further enhancement. Until that day the computer industry will continue to grow. Fortunately human beings are rarely satisfied for long. So maybe one day you won't be a programmer. You will be a technician who spends their day translating user requirements into a language the the AI has been trained to understand, dealing with ambiguities, resolving conflicting requirements, indiciating what's important and what's incidental. Which isn't really that different from what we do today.