[some_account]

I think they are actually. It used to require skill to be a programmer in the old days. You knew one language very well. Today you know hundreds of small things on medium level and you can Google anything. It's quite easy to write code in any text editor, they are all filled with colorful fonts, intellisense, plugins etc.

[rainonmoon]

This is the same spurious argument that we're getting dumber because we can Google anything we forget. Hey, we developed software to make our lives easier and make us orders of magnitude more efficient! What a bunch of idiots!