I am literally a programmer, nice job.

You’re delusional if you don’t think your job will fall eventually.

And implying that only unskilled labor has been automated away is insane and a complete falsehood. There have been many skilled jobs that have been automated away long ago, such as flight engineers.

Middle management is falling by the wayside now.

In some ways, skilled labor is most at risk because labor costs for skilled labor are so much higher and it raises the incentives to eliminate it.

In the interim, yes. In the long run, a maintenance robot will do that. Humans need not apply. It’s over.

If you think only “unskilled” labor is going to feel the pain of this you have another thing coming to you. In some ways, skilled labor fields are most at risk. I can see most programming jobs getting automated away more quickly and easily than most plumbing jobs (though both will happen eventually).

I’d go a lot higher than 50%, personally.