I don't mean to be so dark... it is just I get so worried about the future. It might be age, it might be that i clawed my way to a tiny bit of stability. Things could be great, I actually have seen you in a few threads and you always say the same thing that you love programming because you can focus on global ideas now. That to me sounds fun too. I like both. I am just worried you need less of those people which means more unemployment. For me when I say programming is ripped from me I mean it in all sense of the word.

I've been in this industry for a long time, and have been through a few fundamental shifts, and of course, I have adapted to and valued change throughout. But I have never felt nearly as pessimistic/doubtful about the future of software development as I do now.

Nothing will make me happier than to be wrong about what I see coming.