<i>&gt; Offering a glimpse into the not-too-distant future, [Joseph Sweeney] describes a day when... artificial-intelligence system will build the app... Coding might then be nearly obsolete</i><p>It&#x27;s always cute to hear school administrators (or any non-technical policy types) predict the future based upon superficial understanding of the underlying science and technology.<p>Code synthesis for fully specified and very simple programs is still considered a hard problem. Automating the entire software and product design process is fully AI hard.