Software engineering will get automated, all of the issues with the current models will get worked out in time. People can beg and wish that its not true, but it is. We have a few more good years left and then this career is over
Waymo has been about to replace the need for human drivers for more than a decade and is just starting to get there in some places, but has had basically no impact on demand yet, and that is a task with much less skill expression.
It is the Mc Donalds version of programming, except that Mc Donalds does not steal the food they serve.