One part of the problem is that we are not fighting to control stupid machines anymore but the products of other programmers. Whenever we've climbed a mountain we are confronted with a bigger one behind the valley.

Another part is the way to measure productivity: I had colleagues praised for their productivity who just copied, pasted and adjusted boilerplates. Completely ignoring the long term cost of maintenance.

On the other hand I met colleagues in the past impressed about my coding tricks while I am not at all satisfied about my productivity.

I hope you understand now why I doubt that it will ever become automatic. ..

(Update: ... and if it could be done "automatically" why do we still need a human programmer then? )