Last week, Microsoft laid off 6,000 workers — most of them coders. That followed last year’s layoff of 10,000 more. Meta, Oracle, Amazon, Google — the list goes on. Together, they’ve shed tens of thousands of high-paid tech jobs once thought untouchable.

Just a decade ago, software engineering was a golden ticket into the upper-middle class. Now? It’s an unstable, shrinking profession.

Artificial intelligence is devouring its creators. The creature has seized the controls. The humans are being shown the door.

And this is just the tip of the AI disruption iceberg.

I know some of these young coders. Bright, driven, trained for the digital economy. They were let go in a blink. And the door behind them? Slammed shut.

There may be temptation in Rust Belt and Southern towns to say, “Welcome to the club.” They remember Ross Perot warning about that “giant sucking sound” of jobs going overseas. He was more right than wrong. Had we managed globalization with foresight, we might’ve protected American livelihoods. Instead, we got cheaper stuff and hollowed-out cities.

Now, a new generation is again crashing into walls of........

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