alt Hacker NewsAre we either in a dangerous time where we'll run out of people that have weeks to months, and the resolution/boredom/ability to figure this sort of thing out?
Or are we in a really cool time where we've solved everything so much so many times we can focus on other things?
Tertiary question: If answer two, what the fuck is that?
More the second.
For programmers this is the equivalent of when accountants got spreadsheets. We can just tell the machine what to do without manually performing all the steps.
Some programmers enjoyed the code writing more than the problem solving though.