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That is what my job as a developer has always been.

That is that commitstrip cartoon... "we'll be able to write a comprehensive spec and bam we don't need programmers anymore"

"and do you know what you call that?" "code, it's called code"

To me, that seems the rough description of a product manager! Also something that requires heavy social skills. What will we, the vast nerd majority do?

Nerds? We are not in the 90s anymore. The stereotype of software engineers has changed dramatically (for better or worse). All my current and past colleagues are the opposite of the “nerd”: talkative, married, with kids, investing… none of them like starwars and the like