We are not paid to “code” we are paid to use our knowledge of the technology ecosystem to add business value - either save the company money or to make the company money.

Back in the 2000s for me part of that job was to lead the buildout of a data center with a SAN that took up a whole room to hold 4TBs. Now I do that with 5 lines of yaml in a CloudFormation template.

My job was not “automated out of existence” by not having to provision a data center as part of it.