The jobs that are disappearing are those which require someone to sit in front of a screen, in a cubicle, for 30 years until reaching retirement age.
The software and systems analyst jobs that are not going to go away are those that require an expert technical person to be able to go back and forth with a nontechnical person about the technical specifications needed for a software or SW/HW project. That does, I believe, require knowing how programs are written and run, but it is not programming per se. It also requires discipline knowledge in something other than computing, because I don't believe one can be ignorant of X and implement/modify/adapt a software package to do X.
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The jobs that are disappearing are those which require someone to sit in front of a screen, in a cubicle, for 30 years until reaching retirement age. The software and systems analyst jobs that are not going to go away are those that require an expert technical person to be able to go back and forth with a nontechnical person about the technical specifications needed for a software or SW/HW project. That does, I believe, require knowing how programs are written and run, but it is not programming per se. It also requires discipline knowledge in something other than computing, because I don't believe one can be ignorant of X and implement/modify/adapt a software package to do X.