Software engineers been automating our own work since we built the first assembler. So far it's just made us more productive and valuable, because the demand for software has been effectively unlimited.

Maybe that will continue with AI, or maybe our long-standing habit will finally turn against us.

> Software engineers been automating our own work since we built the first assembler.

The declared goal of AI is to automated software engineering entirely. This is in no way comparable to building an assembler. So the question is mostly about whether or not this goal will be achieved.

Still, nobody is building these systems _for_ me. They're building them to replace me, because my living is too much for them to pay.