Yeah honestly I feel for people whose jobs have been lost to automation in the past, but mostly because everyone else's didn't. If my job evaporates because AI can actually do it more efficiently, I'm not sure how much longer "work" is going to be a thing like it is now[1]. And personally I can't wait for that - but again, I'm in a privileged position where I won't starve immediately. My actual hope is that we're crossing a threshold where we stop expecting that people have to "earn" their right to stay alive through some form of labor exploitation.

[1] I'm basing this off the assumption that other IC jobs and low-level management jobs don't have a significantly greater cognitive demand than software engineering. I could be wrong.