The people and skillsets to successfully run a company have little overlap with strong software engineers. It happens, but no where near the numbers of engineers out there.
Plus if you kill off many engineers jobs, who is left to buy your products?
They can go back to work in the farms, or weave baskets, or pottery...
Still not good? Ok, maybe this is too radical but hear me out: how about we take this incredible increase in productivity as an opportunity to start paving the way for a true post-scarcity future that can benefit most people, eliminate intellectual property and take everything produced by robots to fund UBI, instead of worrying about our cushy jobs and (relative) wealth/status obtained through bullshit jobs?
I mean, yes, but also management is a wayyy less skilled job that’s far easier to automate. That goes away shortly after we get a competent AI engineer.
Business analysts are also incredibly vulnerable - why have a middle man if the machine understands your requirements in English/French/whatever?
> I mean, yes, but also management is a wayyy less skilled job that’s far easier to automate.
This is a pretty wild take. The job that is 99% dealing with human interactions is easier to automate than the job where you make a computer do what you want?