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Re:Hacker culture and the fear of wysiwyg by TuringTest on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @04:33AM (#7803478)
That's the "curse of End-User Development" (akin to the "AI effect" [1]): as long as any kind of automation task is made easy enough that end users can perform it reliably, it's no longer considered a programming task. It happened to spreadsheets, retrieving records from databases through GUIs, publishing and styling blogs as you explained, or the mere possibility to copy-paste large amounts of content (clearly a memcopy loop operation, but nobody sees those as programming anymore).

* [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

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