Thats exactly what we as software engineers do. We are constantly automating ourselves out of a job. The trick is that we never actually accomplish that, there will always be things for humans to do.

We're discovering so much latent demand for software, Jevon's paradox is in full effect and we're working more than ever with AI (at least I am).

I don't disagree, aspects of that will be automated, but two things will remain: Intent and Judgement.

Building AI systems will be about determining the right thing to build and ensuring your AI system fully understands it. For example, I have a trading bot that trades. I spent a lot of time on refining the optimization statement for the AI. If you give it the wrong goal or there's any ambiguity, it can go down the wrong path.

On the back end, I then judge the outcomes. As an engineer I can understand if the work it did actually accomplished the outcomes I wanted. In the future it will be applying that judgement to every field out there.

I see variations of this non-stop these days, people who seem to be sure AI is going to automate everything right up to them.