[stallmanite]

Your argument doesn’t follow. How would being a software developer be the worst job because they “automate their own work away” when in fact they’d have a job until they automated everyone’s work away? It’s likely a given developer would reach retirement before that happens. Meanwhile tons of other people are out of a job.

[codekansas]

I think the point is that software automation tools (automatic testing, nice IDEs) generally don't lead to companies hiring fewer devs, it leads to companies being able to do more with the same number of devs and consequently hiring more. Same thing in construction or any globally competitive industry

[robertlagrant]

Point being that software developers automate away their own manual tasks (and even entire jobs) faster than they automate anything else.