Is it?

If I know the system I'm designing and I'm steering, isn't it the same?

We're not punching cards anymore, yet we're still telling the machines what to do.

Regardless, the only thing that matters is to create value.

Interesting how the definition “real programming” keeps changing. I’m pretty sure when the assembler first came, bare metal machine code programmers said “this isn’t programming”. And I can imagine their horror when the compiler came along.