When people revolt and start hanging programmers for destroying their jobs, it probably won't matter in which field of the industry any of us were.
Fortunately the AI riot police and soldiers will be far more effective at containing unrest than their human predecessors.
You are right. We need to start building in "protect our programmers" as a high-level AI directive.
This particularly worries me because if technical skills go out of vogue, then people skills would become conversely more important, and the thing I've optimized for all my life would become useless.
You and I must have vastly different definitions of "bright".