The future is fewer people writing code?
Non-programmers make this mistake all the time: thinking that the syntax is the hard part of programming.<p>No, the hard part of programming is understanding in very specific and rigid details how to accomplish a task.  What the author doesn&#x27;t realize is the enormous amount of processing power, shared culture and empathy that goes into human interaction.<p>Even mighty Google doesn&#x27;t have the compute power or the architecture to replicate this.  Until computers can <i>understand</i> humans at a human-level this will not be possible.  Several breakthroughs will be necessary, and even still I expect decades&#x2F;centuries before it happens if it even happens.  Essentially we&#x27;re talking about the Singularity.