do you live somewhere where having your career eliminated is not a huge deal? where is that?
the tl;dr is that more jobs will be created than lost, and those jobs will be more interesting and not of the bs job variety many report they work.
Also, what's wrong with a world where most people don't have to work uninspiring tasks and can rather explore other interests or hobbies?
society as a whole is usually better off by such things, are mass-unemployed farriers in 1920?
edit: I do also feel the zeitgeist on HN will be extremely different from this "people will adapt, it's good overall" vibe once it's very-well-paid SWEs that are being affected en masse by this stuff
But it seems to me that software engineers should be very, very nervous about this. Creating things using novel means within well-established and documented/testable boundaries like programming languages seems like something that our current models will absolutely be able to do, if they can't already.
If I had to pick an analogy it wouldn't yet be farriers going out of business, but instead be more like the advent of the pneumatic nail gun for roofers. Everyone will still need a roof (software) to be built. Every instance is a little different at the design level, but the actual grunt work just got easier and faster if you know what you want out of it.
I would ask the same of your original reply
By contrast, I replied directly to your question with my answer