The reason we fell first is because we embraced the copilots. We used them heavily, this gave them more and more training data on top of the code they slurped up from our using their assistants. Soon the assistant became the agent who killed the human.
They also had a rich starting point from open source code (which we somehow gave up without realising it). All of this won't happen as efficiently for these other fields, but it will happen, much in the way you've described. We (swes) turned out to be a rather dumb group of people, which is hilarious since we think we're clever.
The only moat we have is the human to human element, we need to talk to other humans in the business. Customers, etc. But once they're replaced by machines or automation, then machine to machine communication will be the preferred mode of communication and work and the legacy humans will be increasingly cut out of the loop. Human in the loop is a death sentence we just don't realise it.