How is it poetic justice? Were we advocating for automation?
The electrician is more like the person laying fibre optic cable.
Yes? I know I did, still do, and will continue to at least.
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
Only a minority of dev jobs are automating people out of work. There are entirely new industries like game dev that can't exist without it.
Software development has gained such a political whipping-boy status, you'd be forgiven for forgetting it's been the route to the middle classes for a lot of people who would otherwise be too common, weird or foreign.