As an industry, we've been doing the same thing to people in almost every other sector of the workforce, since we began. Automation is just starting to come for us now, and a lot of us are really pissed off about it. All of a sudden, we're humanitarians.

> Automation is just starting to come for us now

This argument is common and facile: Software development has always been about "automating ourselves out of a job", whether in the broad sense of creating compilers and IDEs, or in the individual sense that you write some code and say: "Hey, I don't want to rewrite this again later, not even if I was being paid for my time, I'll make it into a reusable library."

> the same thing

The reverse: What pisses me off is how what's coming is not the same thing.

Customers are being sold a snake-oil product, and its adoption may well ruin things we've spent careers de-crappifying by making them consistent and repeatable and understandable. In the aftermath, some portion of my (continued) career will be diverted to cleaning up the lingering damage from it.