Survival of the Fittest

We have seen many examples in the past. During the rural ages, we had artisans who pride themselves by making chairs with their own unique skillsets. However, when there is an Industrial revolution, many artisans were forced to become employee 2001 in the many factories that has made the artisan's work as part of a huge production line. I have a vision. I believe the same thing may apply to IT services or programming. If one's work does not improve or innovate in a way, it will fall into the same path as the artisans in the 18th century-19th century. In one of the business 2.0 magazines, it mentions that intelligent soft is developing a smart software that is able to recreate software on its own. In another words, the software is trying to remove the error prone human element from software programming itself. I believe this is a possibility and this is bound to happen. If programmers are not able to figure out how to make themselves as unique as possible, they will really need to prepare themselves before it is too late for them and they will have to become the employee number 2001 to feed their family.