[etrautmann]

Nah - there are lots of places where you need EEs still. Anything that interfaces with the world. Having programmability does not move most challenges out of the domain of EE. Much of it is less visible than the output of a software role perhaps.

[FredPret]

There will always be problems that can only be solved by an EE, chem eng, mech eng, etc.

But the juiciest engineering challenges involve figuring out business logic / mission decisions. This is done increasingly in software while the other disciplines increasingly make only the interfaces.