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Bingo! This also happened when web frameworks promised to take away our jobs. Also when code generators promised to take away our jobs.
It turns out that expertise in computers remains pretty useful in a society that uses computers for almost everything. Even after the exact previous computer skill is no longer relevant.
Source: Y'all can pry Commodore BASIC from my cold dead hands. I may not be getting paid for it, but I'll keep producing that beautiful line numbered code until my last breath.