Comment by skybrian
2 hours ago
Software engineers have been automating away workers' jobs from the beginning. "Computer" was once a job title. There were armies of switchboard operators at the phone company. Companies had typing pools, mail clerks, and file clerks. We write shell scripts and development tools to automate our own jobs.
Most of us got into engineering for the means (programming computers) rather than the ends (automating away jobs).
I guess the people that have been rejoicing from the AI revolution are of the latter type.