The future is fewer people writing code?

Re:The future is fewer people writing code? by autokad on Friday July 22, 2016 @07:34PM (#12147548)

its much faster to put together a functioning system than it was 10 years ago. For example in ROR, install devise and you already have a login system. I imagine things will keep getting incrementally easier / faster until one day we wont need a 'programmer' to do what we want.

google isn't unaware, I'll try not to put words in his mouth, but a google exec said something along the lines that we aren't very far from needing half of the programmers/ IT people we have today

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Re:The future is fewer people writing code? by khedoros on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:04PM (#12147651)

> google isn't unaware, I'll try not to put words in his mouth, but a google exec said something along the lines that we aren't very far from needing half of the programmers/ IT people we have today

In one way, that's a scary idea (a lot of people will end up looking for work elsewhere). On the other, what programmer wants to do the stuff that can be automated away or done by a non-programmer? Or wants to reinvent the wheel because of NIH syndrome?

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Re:The future is fewer people writing code? by thaumasiotes on Saturday July 23, 2016 @12:42AM (#12148376)

> what programmer wants to [...] reinvent the wheel because of NIH syndrome?

Almost all of them?

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Re:The future is fewer people writing code? by khedoros on Saturday July 23, 2016 @11:59AM (#12149849)

Hard to imagine, when I see all the stories about tiny modules in Node.js...but easy to imagine when I see how many JS frameworks are out there.

Still, so much of what we do these days is just tying together other people's libraries, connecting them together and maybe doing a bit of data conversion. My first step when I need to do something is to find out if someone else already wrote the software. Then I can just install+configure+move on to more interesting things.

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