I don’t really blame StackOverflow here. We are living in an age where there are exponentially more people attempting to program than their used to be, and with lots of different motivations. Many of those people just aren’t capable or interested in being experts. The problem as I see it isn’t that this situation exists, but that those workers still command such high salaries.

We aren’t nearly as close as you suggest do the level of code generation that would replace the bottom quarter of the labor pool even, but if that day ever comes I believe it will be really profitable for the top 20-30%.