U.S. Dept of Labor Predicts Decline in Programming Jobs

This is the same dept that gives sunny outlook to "Software Developer, Applications", "Software Architects", etc...

http://www.onetonline.org/find/quick?s=software+engineer

Sadly, "programmers" are no longer needed. But as code still needs to be written, nice to know that "software developers, applications" will be hired to write the programs, and so many nice syllables in the new job title!

They differentiate between programming and software engineering. Combine both occupations and you get a projected 29% increase from 2008 to 2018.

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos303.htm#projections_data

They also claim that programming requires "The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly."

I'm skeptical.

also, how many programmers are self employed these days...?