Yea, the game industry is going the way of the film industry.
Although it seems crazy, there actually will be a time where we will have programmed everything we will have to program. The rest will be maintenance coders, tweakers and specific project coders.
Yeah yeah, people have been saying that about inventions for years, 'There's nothing left to invent!' Different ways of life will leads to new inventions and software development. Some projects need time for technology to mature, sure much of it will piggy back on an already existing idea, but it's a far reach to credit Alexander Graham Bell for the cell phones we use today, same with new versions of software.
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