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andaitoday at 8:05 PM0 repliesview on HN

>It’s our job to build the software factory - not just the software. Software engineers maintain the assembly line allowing anyone to prompt for a change and ship immediately.

The job of the software engineer increasingly becomes to make himself unnecessary: to empower the nontechnical business users to do as much as reasonably possible, without his/her intervention.

This has, of course, been the dream of computing, since its inception! And the true aim of every "high level" or "beginner friendly" (looking at you javascript!) language.

But finally, now that the computer actually speaks English (and is beginning to stop making completely insane errors), it gradually becomes feasible.

Freeing the masses from the tyranny of the nerds!