It never works until it does. Many major inventions seemed impossible, but they just took a long time. Software is so young and growing so fast, it's hard to say what can happen.

>It never works until it does. Many major inventions seemed impossible, but they just took a long time.

And others remained impossible still, e.g. cold fusion.

They mostly remain unsolved, not impossible.

Cold fusion not withstanding, most aren't prohibited by physics - in fact humans already are an existence proof that bio-machines can already create software autonomously with no change in physics, so seems like a question of when, not if.

I like this article, but I think actually the software industry has seen a succession of silver bullets. The problem is, once they appear, you take them for granted:

https://riskfirst.org/Silver-Bullets