These days it’s more likely to be AI engineering than computer programming, but the rapid cultural change is similar.1

The cartoon is from the book (with accompanying CD image files), The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker, by Robert Mankoff and David Remnick, 2004.

New Yorker cartoon, a man chasing another man with a net
"But I don't want to be a computer programmer!"

  1. Cartoon by Vahan Shirvanian, The New Yorker, May 31, 1969. Listed in The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker, by Robert Mankoff and David Remnick, 2004. ↩︎