When the whole industry manually punched machine code into punch cards, people were threatened by assemblers taking their jobs, and then later by compilers, and now by inference engines.

The real engineering work that will always be paid for is identifying problems and testing solutions to see what solves the problems.

The substrate in which we use to do that will change, but the job will endure.

Those that just do what they are told however, yeah they are SOL unfortunately.

Creative problem solving is the only skill that will matter anymore.