I think you might be surprised, it’s possible some types of programming could be automated away. Honestly I would consider writing programs more straightforward to automate than a lot of systems that need to interact with the physics map world, or with people.
But programming is essentially about interacting with people more so than interacting with computers, even now. It's less so that the job will go away than that its nature will change, such that the proportion of time interacting with people goes up, and the time currently spent "coding" will instead be spent interacting with AI which writes the actual code. But this AI won't be smart enough for a while to talk to a normal human who doesn't know how to talk to it and translate requirements into the right form. Hence the need for the programmer. Programmers will make use of the automation to just become much more productive.
