Programming won’t be automated, or it already has been
Things don't have to be fully automated to mean big changes. The factory that makes Ikea bookcases employs twice the number of people it did in the 1980s but they make 37x as many bookcases [1]We're looking at a similar situation in the programming, ops, and IT support areas.A friend of mine Tweeted this the other night: "I'm sleepless so I just created a voice-based health tracker using Google Assistant in about 20 minutes that took me wks to write 3 yrs ago." [2]I've heard numerous anecdotes of "A Zapier account and 20 minutes of fiddling with things just replaced a SAAS app/consultant, etc. we were paying for."This is what automation looks like: the top 10% in a profession doing 100x the work previously done. To date the appetite for more and more software development (eating the world) has sufficed, but there is no guarantee that will always be the case.1 - http://www.bbc.com/news/business-387474852 - https://twitter.com/Raelshark/status/843776684407111680