I assume the parent is flame-bait... but figured I&#x27;d bite.<p>Your comment is akin to saying &quot;now that we have biologist&#x2F;geneticist&#x2F;etc, we no longer need doctors&quot;. Admins&#x2F;Systems engineers are closer to a &quot;true&quot; engineer, than a developer. Developers are closer to a researcher&#x2F;scientist in some respect.<p>Most developers ( specially app developers ), have a VERY limited scope&#x2F;domain of skillsets. Your average web front end developer is great at taking business requirements and making that into a web app, but has usually zero clue of anything beyond that.<p>&quot;admins&quot; or systems engineers, should be ( and I&#x27;d admit, in many places they aren&#x27;t), just like Systems engineers in any other engineering field. People who hold interdisciplinary skills ( networking and systems knowledge, specific systems knowledge, programming skills, etc ), and are able to manage complex system through their life cycle. They deal with requirements, logistics, coordination, etc, as it applies to the engineering system.<p>This need will always be there. If anything, more complex software gets rid of the need for different level of app developers. As frameworks become &quot;cookie cutter&quot;, business requirements to application may be able to be fully automated. And developers may, in a not so distant future, just be responsible for building such frameworks.<p>Put it this way, &quot;admins&quot; were thought of by Charles Babbage. There will always be need for them.<p>note: some companies have just delegated admin and system engineering duties to app developers. That&#x27;s just an HR system, not a cure as you make it.