I am doing some self introspection and trying to decide what I am going to do next. As at some point what I do is going to be wildly automated. We can cope or whine or complain about it. But at some point I need to pay the bills. So it needs to be something that is value add and decently difficult to automate. Software was that but not for long.
Now mix getting cheap fresh out of college kids with the ability to write decent software in hours instead of weeks. That is a lot of jobs that are going to go away. There is no 'right or wrong' about this. It is just simple economics of cost to produce is going to drop thru the floor. Because us old farts cost more, and not all of us are really good at this we just have been doing it for awhile. So I need to find out what is next for me.