People aren't even 100% autonomous so I wouldn't exactly be holding my breath here. Personally, I don't expect the expect operators to just go away given how terrible even professionals are at asking for and specifying what they want. I'm not sure if it that would be called optimism or pessimism but specifying stuff properly to anyone or anything is hard, and AI won't spare you from the burden of clarifying your ideas any more than outsourcing did.