Is it just me or has this same article or title come up like 2-3 other times? The only thing remotely interesting in this particular article is the graph with productivity vs code-base size...mostly because when you give it some thought, is actually wrong. An expert programmer will be as efficient as any other expert programmer. The code-base will still grow and they will still remain productive. This guy is talking about what happens in this era, how that's our "average". If we up the average so everyone is proficient with language X, we wouldn't see this issue.