The death of coding has been greatly exaggerated.

I spent a fairly substantial portion of my career in that go-between role that lies between the boardroom and the coding bullpen. I spent the vast majority of that time trying to convince management that writing code is not the same as shoveling coal. You can scale coal shoveling by adding more coal shovelers. For reasons which are still a bit of mystery to me (hence, no longer in that go-between role) the same is not true of code.

Two observations: coding, or rather coders, are like art. I can’t define them, but I know a good one when I see one. Or at least I think I do. Continuing with that metaphor, code really does lies somewhere in the netherworld between science and art. It contains strong elements of both. You can automate the science, but I don’t think you can automate the art. The science is in the features you put in. The art is in the features you leave out.

Hence, it’s going to be a long, long time before ‘coding is over’.