> Does that automatically translate into more openings for the people whose full time job is providing that thing?
Not automatically, no.
How it affects employment depends on the shapes of the relevant supply/demand curves, and I don't think those are possible to know well for things like this.
For the world as a whole, it should be a very positive thing if creating usable software becomes an order of magnitude cheaper, and millions of smart people become available for other work.
Given the products that the software industry is largely focused on building (predatory marketing for the attention economy and surveillance), this unfortunately may be the case.
Not automatically, no.
How it affects employment depends on the shapes of the relevant supply/demand curves, and I don't think those are possible to know well for things like this.
For the world as a whole, it should be a very positive thing if creating usable software becomes an order of magnitude cheaper, and millions of smart people become available for other work.