Eli Bendersky's website One of my favorite stories by Isaac Asimov is Profession. The following is a spoiler, so please read the story before proceeding if you don't like spoilers.
In the futuristic society of year 6000-something, people no longer need to learn their profession from books, lectures or hands-on experience. Each person has their brain analyzed at a certain age and then the know-how for the occupation that's best suited for them is simply uploaded into the brain using special cassettes (hey, this story is 60 years old) and electrodes. The folks who end up the best at their craft (determined via competitions) end up with high-demand assignments on "Class A" outer worlds.
The protagonist, George Platen, has a dream of getting "educated" in a certain profession and reaching a desirable assignment. But he runs into trouble when his brain assessment determines that no profession is a good fit for him, and he's placed in a special "house for the feeble-minded" to spend his time however he wants, even reading books.
Long story short, after some adventures George discovers the truth on his own; someone has to create these training cassettes, advance human technology and update training materials to account for these advances. There's a "meta-profession", something akin to scientist, and George was selected for this meta-profession.
I always loved this story for the meta aspect; many occupations are prone to automation, and this has become much more true since Asimov first put the plot to paper. But some human professions are necessarily "meta"; you can automate them, but this just generates new professions that have to develop said automation. Ad infinitum, or at least until Singularity.
In the course of my career, I've heard the promises of "no code" programming many times. These tools didn't cause the demand for programmers to plummet, but to simply shift in other directions. More recently, I treat the hype about AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot with similar calm. These are great tools that are going to make some programmers' lives easier, but replace programmers? Nope; only move programmers another notch up the meta ladder.
By the way, do you know what profession George Platen was aiming at before he knew the truth? Computer programmer. A far-sighted move by Asimov, given that the story was written in 1957!