> very cautiously optimistic that the strong kids will still find a place.

Well yeah I mean that's always going to hold true if we are just talking about things in general

> maybe they can learn to fix John Deere tractors instead.

Yes these roles will probably shift to hardware more and more. But it's very different, much harder/impossible to teach yourself to the same level as you can with coding. The knowledge I gained staying up until 2am writing Flash games transferred directly to my career in software engineering