But isn't that where the profession ultimately heads towards? Less manual, more or less inspired coding, instead more dialogue with clients and translating their wishes into a specification which can be turned into code with ever more sophisticated tools?
Definitely. Understanding the problem space and formulating the requirements is often overlooked when people claim "AI will take over programming".
Although off the shelf products will be able to do more and more tasks, I believe the demand for complicated solutions constantly will stay ahead of these.
This is exactly what we're seeing with Automation threatening the easy jobs, but as a whole, more specialized people are needed for the cases when that isn't enough.
