Programming has made more farewells than Frank Sinatra, but the difference being that “Old Blue Eyes” eventually played one final concert, whereas programming isn’t going to go away.
Year after year, pundits float a new meme: low-code/no-code systems will mean the end of the need to hand code or (the latest universal panacea) ChatGPT will become all-powerful and obviate the need for software engineers. Let’s be clear: there is no prospect whatsoever that at some point in the future we won’t need to code. Indeed, quite the reverse is true. But what is also true is that we have come a long way in reducing bespoke coding and replacing that with software extensibility.
Claus Jepsen 