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I remember in the 1980s, a joke that was a threat from sysadmins: "Go away, or I will replace you with a shell script." There used to be people who were telephone operators that connected calls, projectionists in movie theaters who cut and spliced every film that arrived in segments, toll booth operators that made change, and travel agents who figured out connections and called for tickets (that one is still on the way out). Realistically, IT has always been "people who can think logically and translate somebody else's needs into a working plan." Given that AI is like a golden retriever with attachment issues, there's still a need for somebody to guard the doors and engineer the project. Like law and many other fields, the junior positions are being diminished, but there's still a need for a hand on the rudder and a careful eye on the navigation. Even if we're moving from sail to steam.