I think as our field evolves, more work will be dealing with high level abstractions. There is a massive need for distributed systems design. Companies have big ambitions, but not enough labor to accomplish them.

There will still be plenty of low level systems programming work. The field is growing, not shrinking.

One impact this may have is that it may make tasks easier and more accessible, which could bring lots of new talent and could also apply downward force on wages. But the counter to that is that there is so much more work to be done.

I'm all for new tools.