[quonn]

> As software development and delivery becomes increasingly automated

How? Software is by definition like _manufacturing_ a single item. Production (copying) is already free and maximally automated.

In two centuries we have made very little progress in automating development. I don't see that changing soon, especially not for software.

[adrianN]

We did simplify software development _a lot_ since the dawn of computers. Compilers, IDEs, standard libraries... it's not really automation yet, but a programmer today is much more productive than a programmer forty years ago.

[nmrm2]

Right, but the definition of a minimum viable product is also fanstastically more complicated today than it was forty years ago...

[kuschku]

90% of what startups recently provide is not complicated technically, but only from legal or business standpoints.

Dropbox and Uber, just to name a few, are technically very simply implemented, and had many competitors before and after them.

Especially in the startup scene no hard theoretical issues are solved anymore.

You don’t see a startup develop mpeg-5