The article expresses what a lot of us are feeling. I appreciated the read.

It conflates purpose with outcome. I don't accept the premise that software's purpose is to "automate away other jobs". That may be an outcome, but software's purpose is to enable completely new possibilities. Think bicycles of the mind.

The Apollo guidance computer didn't replace astronauts. It made the missions possible in the first place because no human can continually correct the spaceship trajectory every 250ms for 10 days on end.

We're not receiving some cosmic karma. We're more like cotton pickers after the cotton gin. Someone still has to plow and plant.