Williams Isaac

I do not think automation in the area is possible.

I think, it is. We are only at the beginning, though. See this article about AI programming AI. An exposit:

The company’s A.I. project, AutoML, has successfully taught machine-learning software how to program machine-learning software. In some cases, the machines programmed better A.I. software than even the Google researchers could design.

Marco Alka I agree with that, but someone still needs to maintain the software for this A.I unless the A.I is built to be able to perform a shutdown, auto-update, restart and software installation of its self. POINT: Some engineers still need to take care of AI software upgrade.

Williams Isaac in the short-run? Yes. But the world will move on, and at some point, writing the code will be fully automated, including bug-fixes and new features. Code will be highly optimized (humans will probably hardly be able to grasp it). Getting a custom program will be as easy as telling your Alexa that you want some software which lets you do X and Y and Alexa will deliver within milliseconds. That will be the time, when humans turn to arts and see, how they can come up with something unique, which an AI cannot provide.