mso3i
Coding was just a mechanism/tool developed to talk more efficiently to machines. We did it with binary, assembly etc once upon a time. Then it got easier and easier. Less people use the older mechanisms. But the tool was never the point of the story. Talking to the machine to get something done was the point of the story. Just like human language emerged to help move info from one 3 inch chimp brain into another so they could work together more smoothly.
At the end of the day the story is never about a specific tool like Software. It has always been about what problem the tool can be used to produce solutions.
Things have to stay stable long enough for a leadership class to emerge. In tech that is not possible. They are just leaves in the wind.
Its easy to prove - take some one who is quite full of themselves and their critical thinking skills, and put them in a situation they haven't been trained to handle and watch what happens. It doesn't matter who they are.
Humanity survives not because of its critical thinking skills or their ability to solve quantum field equations, but because there are enough surplus people to take a hit when the whole system is thrown into situations where critical thinking does jack.