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Oh no. This author appears to have imagined some kool aid to drink.

No one's job is actively going away. What's happening is job-role compression - no longer are there "pure coder" roles. You can think of it the same way as there's no longer an IT team in the depths of the company - nowadays the company has many SaaS products strung together with APIs, and the office manager is part-time IT as one of their many roles. They do point-and-click to perform onboarding/offboarding etc. - in the same morning they might onboard a new employee, then go restock the kitchen.

In software the roughly-equivalent outcome is a decrease in deeply technical work (and especially a decrease to produce CRUD apps). But no change in the human-to-human work to uncover what actually needs to be built. So you're no longer a "programmer" or even "software engineer", you're now a "full stack product manager".

It's a continuation of a trend where less "sit-and-type" is needed to get to value. Think of how simple kubernetes and similar infra makes it to implement horizontally scalable, stateless web apps. As the "sit-and-type" ratio changes, the value you can generate by being good at deciding what to build increases!

As always, if you want a durable job, hone 2 skillsets: get good at talking to people about what they need, while simultaneously keeping up with trends such as LLMs so you can keep on guiding the computer to produce what is needed.