Getting rid of software engineers could be the Doorman Fallacy[1]. How much of the job is writing new code? A lot of it is solve problems/maintenance, improvements, integrations with other systems, update existing implementation, delivery automation support.
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[1]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doorman_fallacy" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doorman_fallacy