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Re:Coding Is Over by andrewjl on Sunday June 26, 2016 @01:30PM (#11981673)
Clickbait-y headline. But the author makes some valid points. Software engineering is in the end just problem solving. And re-implementing already resolved issues from scratch does not a good engineer make. (And by that I mean in a professional context, not in the beginning for purely educational purposes. I learned web dev by re-writing a simple Twitter clone from scratch and still recommend that as the best way to get one's feet wet.)

There are untold opportunities to make the tools we use to build software more capable and reduce the cognitive load that a large code base imposes on it's engineering team. The next few years should be interesting.

Re:Coding Is Over by aries1980 on Sunday June 26, 2016 @02:29PM (#11981974)
The thing is the problems are never solved. They might be solved in one way, for one given case, but problems can't be generalised at that scale.

Just look at the tyres. You use different width, different patterns for different road types, per season. And the industry is still evolving!

Even a programming language can't fit to all scenarios!