CEO Elon Musk has made yet another sweeping prediction about the future of work, this time aimed squarely at software engineers. Speaking at a recent conference, the Tesla chief argued that the entire practice of writing code in human-readable programming languages is about to become obsolete.

On our most recent episode, we reported on how tons of young people are choosing trade school over college out of fear of white-collar jobs drying up. Companies appear to be making big bets that AI can replace huge chunks of their workforces. It seems like ...