Good article

As someone who has worked in IT since the late 80s (started in high school), I would be hesitant to get too exited with the code revolution. As with all aspects of technology, programing or writing code has come a long way since “hello world “. It won’t be long until assembling apps and web based technology becomes clean object orientated logic based design with an assembly processes that uses other skills to get the job done rather than lines of code, which is inefficient at best.

A nice website created with a free Content Management System that used both free and paid for components and modules takes virtually no programming on the developers end. I know because I have been creating them for 8 years now and my code skills are suffering greatly. Sure, someone had to create the CMS and the plugins that drive it, but those are top tier jobs with open source contributions or small teams.

I guarantee the code revolution will slow down and morph into a simpler process with AI to help efficiently develops good clean code. Some could say that Adobe Muse is heading in that direction, but in its absolute infancy. Design the code with graphics, let the software so the rest. Nowhere near good code, but an innovative process. Another step for the WYSIWYG.

Not convinced. I worked as a Network Services Manager for the government. Back many years ago when a servers hard drive went bad many issues came into play as to how the drive would be replaced and restored. New systems in present day use sophisticated drive arrays that need nothing more than a person to pull out the drive and pop a new one in (30 seconds) , the system now automatically prepares the drive and writes it. Yeah, a text message will tell you a drive needs swapping and requires a walk to the server room. Who would have thought?

Just recently my job creating massive CMS for a government entity was outsourced. Having just a computer anywhere to do work is also a liability so long as there are other countries willing to do the work cheaper, and that’s the other downside of being a mobile work force.

As for me, will go back to being self employed with high hopes in picking up another long germ govt contract as a site developer.

You are correct, the ability to have a middle class income is more likely possible with tech skills. I will not argue that; just the changes to come in the near future. Up until now I have not had a problem finding great pay.

One day we will look back on coding every aspect of a project as silly.